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Landsborough Tree

Coordinates: 17°44′21″S 139°33′53″E / 17.7391°S 139.5648°E / -17.7391; 139.5648
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Landsborough Tree
Landsborough Tree (before it was burned down)
LocationBurketown, Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates17°44′21″S 139°33′53″E / 17.7391°S 139.5648°E / -17.7391; 139.5648
Official nameLandsborough Tree
Typestate heritage (landscape)
Designated21 August 1992
Reference no.600374
Significant period1862-2002
Landsborough Tree is located in Queensland
Landsborough Tree
Location of Landsborough Tree in Queensland
Landsborough Tree is located in Australia
Landsborough Tree
Landsborough Tree (Australia)

Landsborough Tree is a heritage-listed tree at Burketown, Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 August 1992.[1]

History

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The Landsborough Tree marks the site by the Albert River where explorer William Landsborough established a depot camp while searching for the missing Burke and Wills expedition in 1862.[2] He buried supplies near the eucalypt tree in case the explorers should come up upon it; he carved the word "Dig" into the tree.[3]

The brig Firefly used in the search was abandoned nearby on the riverbank.[2]

In December 2002, vandals set the tree alight, causing the trunk to fall over.[3] In 2007, it was described as "nothing but a small charred stump", but by June 2009 there was a sapling "replanted" alongside the dead tree to replace it.[4]

References

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The "replanted" Landsborough Tree, 2009
  1. ^ "Landsborough Tree (entry 600374)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Burketown: a Matilda byway". Travel Action Matilda Country Magazine. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Fury over burnt explorer's landmark". Sydney Morning Herald. 24 December 2002. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  4. ^ Martin, Richard J (September 2013), "'Reading' the Leichhardt, Landsborough and Gregory explorer trees of northern Australia", Cultural Studies Review, 19 (2): 216–236, ISSN 1446-8123

Attribution

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This Wikipedia article was originally based on "The Queensland heritage register" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 7 July 2014, archived on 8 October 2014). The geo-coordinates were originally computed from the "Queensland heritage register boundaries" published by the State of Queensland under CC-BY 3.0 AU licence (accessed on 5 September 2014, archived on 15 October 2014).

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