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Centurion

Eucalyptus 99 · CC BY-SA 4.0

95% trees around it and 110 species recorded.

79Forestyas Score

Notable treeDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km95%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded110
  • Altitude306 m

The forest around

95% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 99%Grassland 1%Trees 95%Shrubland 0%Grassland 4%Wetland 0%Water 1%Trees 98%Grassland 2%Water 0%Trees 94%Shrubland 1%Grassland 6%95%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km95%
  • 3–6 km98%
  • 6–10 km94%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees95%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water1%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

110 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Gahnia grandis
Gahnia grandisGahnia grandis20 recordsJohn Tann · CC BY 2.0
Pomaderris apetala
Pomaderris apetalaPomaderris apetala20 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Messmate StringybarkNT
Messmate StringybarkEucalyptus obliqua16 recordsYoav Daniel Bar-Ness · CC BY 4.0
Polystichum proliferum
Polystichum proliferumPolystichum proliferum16 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0
Hymenophyllum cupressiforme
Hymenophyllum cupressiformeHymenophyllum cupressiforme15 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · Public domain
Pteridium esculentum
Pteridium esculentumPteridium esculentum14 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0
Pimelea drupacea
Pimelea drupaceaPimelea drupacea14 recordsSweet, Robert · Public domain
Blackwood
BlackwoodAcacia melanoxylon13 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountain-ash
Mountain-ashEucalyptus regnans12 recordsTTaylor · CC BY 2.5
Zieria arborescens
Zieria arborescensZieria arborescens11 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Notogrammitis billardierei
Notogrammitis billardiereiNotogrammitis billardierei11 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0
Silver Wattle
Silver WattleAcacia dealbata9 recordsDonald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark · CC BY 2.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

79out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 95%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 110Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 306 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from December to March.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan20°9°70 mm
  2. Feb20°8°54 mm
  3. Mar18°8°75 mm
  4. Apr14°6°74 mm
  5. May11°5°90 mm
  6. Jun9°3°95 mm
  7. Jul9°3°102 mm
  8. Aug9°2°124 mm
  9. Sep11°3°109 mm
  10. Oct13°4°98 mm
  11. Nov16°6°75 mm
  12. Dec18°7°85 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Centurion.

The tallest tree in Australia

Centurion is a notable tree in Australia, 306 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 95% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

110 species have been recorded around it: 62 plants, 0 fungi, 48 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Gahnia grandis, Pomaderris apetala and Messmate Stringybark.

The best time to walk is from December to March.

Centurion tree 99.82
Eucalyptus 99 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Centurion seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmTriarius, Centurion
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 3shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 3viewpoints within 5 kmGlovers Bluff lookout
  • 2campsites within 10 kmTahune Forest Reserve, Arve River Picnic Area
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • places to stay within 10 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Centurion.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas77 mountains within 25 km
Glovers Bluff7.1 kmCamels Back7.7 kmMount Frederick10 kmDevils Backbone15 kmMount Picton16 kmHartz Peak19 kmMount Chapman20 kmMount Misery22 km
Islandyasthe island
Tasmania65,022 km²
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Lake Picton0.5 km² · 14 kmLake Riveaux0.4 km² · 15 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Centurion Bridgelayer
Sandstein · CC BY 3.0
Centurion Tree, TAS, AUS
Contactcat · CC BY-SA 4.0
Le Centurion - Charles F. Morgan - Vevey 01
Llez · CC BY-SA 3.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3664932) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species817 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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