Gregory’s Tree
Victoria River Area
About Gregory’s Tree
Located in Judbarra / Gregory National Park, Gregory’s Tree is a Boab tree on the banks of the Victoria River 15km north-west of Timber Creek. It’s a sacred site to the Ngarinyman people. The tree is a living monument to the exploration of the north of Australia, in particular the North Australia Expedition led by Augustus Charles Gregory in 1855-56. The tree, a boab (Adansonia gregorii), marks the area of Gregory’s ‘entrenchment camp’ from October 1855 to July 1856. A boardwalk surrounds the magnificent Boab where Baines, the expedition artist, marked the arrival and departure dates of Gregory’s North Australia Expedition. You can clearly read the dates he inscribed into the tree trunk. The tree was to serve as a marker should the expedition run into trouble. Gregory’s Tree is situated ...
Gregory’s Tree
Victoria River Area, Northern Territory
Judbarra / Gregory National Park, off the Victoria Highway, Victoria River Area, Timber Creek, Northern Territory, Australia, 0852
Pay your respects at the big Boab tree, significant for the local Ngarinman Aboriginal people and Augustus Gregory's 1885 North Australian expedition.
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Gregory’s Tree
Judbarra / Gregory National Park, off the Victoria Highway, Victoria River Area, Timber Creek, Northern Territory, Australia, 0852
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