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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.




History


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. He buried supplies near the eucalypt tree in case the explorers should come up upon it; he carved the word "Dig" into the tree.
The brig Firefly used in the search was abandoned nearby on the riverbank.
In December 2002, vandals set the tree alight, causing the trunk to fall over. 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.




References






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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).




External links


Media related to Landsborough Tree at Wikimedia Commons

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Landsborough Tree
• Landsborough's Blazed Tree (Camp 67)
• Landsborough's Blazed Tree (Camp 69)
• William Landsborough
• Landsborough, Queensland
• Burketown
• Burke and Wills Dig Tree
• Caloundra
• Hodgkinson's Marked Tree
• The Robbers Tree