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Green Mountain

LordHarris · CC BY-SA 3.0

16% trees around it and 113 species recorded.

47Forestyas Score

ForestWild

  • trees within 3 km16%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded113
  • Altitude726 m

The forest around

16% 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 66%Shrubland 19%Grassland 16%Trees 10%Shrubland 38%Grassland 22%Bare ground 28%Built-up 2%Trees 0%Shrubland 4%Grassland 1%Water 42%Bare ground 52%Built-up 0%Water 90%Bare ground 9%Built-up 0%16%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km66%
  • 1–3 km10%
  • 3–6 km0%
  • 6–10 km0%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees10%
  • Shrubland38%
  • Grassland22%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground28%
  • Built-up2%

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

113 species recorded.

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

Ascension spurgeCR
Ascension spurgeEuphorbia origanoides22 recordsDrew Avery · CC BY 2.0
FernCR
FernPtisana purpurascens16 recordsJebulon · CC0
Batwing fern
Batwing fernHistiopteris incisa14 recordsMike Dickison · CC BY 4.0
FernCR
FernPteris adscensionis13 recordsDrew Avery · CC BY 2.0
Spring Grass
Spring GrassEriochloa procera9 recordsHarry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Sixweeks threeawn
Sixweeks threeawnAristida adscensionis9 recordsAnthony Valois and the National Park Service · Public domain
Christella dentata
Christella dentataChristella dentata9 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Palhinhaea cernua
Palhinhaea cernuaPalhinhaea cernua8 recordsEric Guinther · CC BY-SA 3.0
Molassesgrass
MolassesgrassMelinis minutiflora6 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Sporobolus africanus
Sporobolus africanusSporobolus africanus6 recordsHarry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Cretan brake
Cretan brakePteris cretica6 recordsnaturewatchwidow · CC BY 4.0
Tropical crabgrass
Tropical crabgrassDigitaria ciliaris6 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

47out of 100

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

  • 16%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 113Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 726 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from July to November.

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

  1. Jan26°25°4 mm
  2. Feb27°26°4 mm
  3. Mar28°27°10 mm
  4. Apr28°27°12 mm
  5. May27°26°8 mm
  6. Jun26°26°5 mm
  7. Jul25°25°6 mm
  8. Aug24°24°5 mm
  9. Sep24°24°4 mm
  10. Oct24°24°6 mm
  11. Nov24°24°5 mm
  12. Dec25°24°3 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Green Mountain.

Highest point on Ascension Island

Green Mountain is a forest in United Kingdom, 726 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 16% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

113 species have been recorded around it: 77 plants, 14 fungi, 22 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ascension spurge, Fern and Batwing fern.

The best time to walk is from July to November.

Green Mountain2
LordHarris · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Green Mountain 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

  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmScout's Beach Hut Campsite
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmHeart Held Guest House
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Green Mountain.

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.

Peakyas8 mountains within 25 km
Green Mountain859 m · 0.1 kmAscension0.9 kmWeather Post1.8 kmTravellers Hill2.3 kmSisters Peak254 m · 2.6 kmLady Hill3.6 kmPowers Peak266 m · 3.7 kmSouth Gannet Hill5.3 km
Coastya7 beaches within 10 km
Spire Beach4.1 kmPumice Cove4.1 kmShelly Beach6.9 kmMitchell Cove7.2 kmThe Long Beach7.3 kmClarkes Beach7.3 kmComfortless Cove7.3 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Green MountainBortle 1 · this place

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Nescopeck Creek Valley (8583932443)
Nicholas A. Tonelli from Northeast Pennsylvania, USA · CC BY 2.0
GREEN MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT - ASCENSION ISLAND
JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0
Green Mountain1
LordHarris · CC BY-SA 3.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q5602884) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,777 open records within 5 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, Coastya, Darkskyas

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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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
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