Talk:Thorpdale, Victoria
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[edit] Tallest tree
So what happened, did it shrink, did it die, fall down? The tallest tree at this moment is the Stratosphere Giant at 112 m (see Sequoia). Piet 09:18, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
- Moreover, The Sequoia article states that the highest tree ever measured was 113.6 m. If this tree was 114 m that is wrong. Or was the measurement incorrect? Piet 10:08, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
The world’s tallest tree ever recorded was a fallen Eucalyptus regnans tree measured at 133 m at Watts River, Victoria, in 1872 (Carder 1995). The tree, reported by William Ferguson, had a broken top and the entire tree was estimated to have once been over 500 feet (152 m) tall. However, there is some doubt (e.g. Maiden 1904, cited in Carder 1995) about the veracity of this and other early records, and the tallest eucalypt tree acknowledged by some sources was a 115 m E. regnans felled in 1880 at Thorpdale, Victoria, and measured by a certified surveyor, George Cornthwaite (Hardy 1935).
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- Carder, A.C. (1995). Forest Giants of the World, Past and Present. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Ontario.
- Maiden, J.H. (1907). The giant trees of Australia. In: Forest Flora of New South Wales, pp. 161–165.
- Hardy, A.D. (1935). Australia’s giant trees. Victorian Naturalist 51: 231–241.
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- So there you go. It was felled. I originally found out about it because of someone writing here that it was in the 1977 Guiness Book of Wolrd Records. How reliable they are is anyone's guess. pfctdayelise (translate?) 10:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Nice work. I'll change the Sequoia article unless you do it first. See you around. Piet 11:19, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
