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National Capital Botanical Gardens

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

36% trees around it and 97 species recorded.

56Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km36%
  • wild within 10 km90%
  • species recorded97
  • Altitude52 m

The forest around

36% 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 30%Grassland 18%Built-up 52%Trees 37%Grassland 25%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 37%Trees 23%Grassland 38%Water 23%Bare ground 2%Cropland 0%Built-up 14%Trees 16%Mangroves 1%Grassland 34%Wetland 0%Water 44%Bare ground 1%Built-up 4%36%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km30%
  • 1–3 km37%
  • 3–6 km23%
  • 6–10 km16%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees37%
  • Mangroves0%
  • Grassland25%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up37%

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

97 species recorded.

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

Ear-leaf Acacia
Ear-leaf AcaciaAcacia auriculiformis8 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Ghost gum
Ghost gumCorymbia papuana7 recordsPrince Roy , Taipei · CC BY 2.0
Bothriochloa decipiens
Bothriochloa decipiensBothriochloa decipiens4 recordsMacleay Grass Man · CC BY 2.0
Candelabra wattle
Candelabra wattleAcacia holosericea4 recordsEthel Aardvark · CC BY 3.0
Acute spikerush
Acute spikerushEleocharis acutangula2 recordsShow_ryu · CC BY-SA 3.0
White leadtree
White leadtreeLeucaena leucocephala2 recordsAris riyanto · CC BY 3.0
Dendrobium lineale
Dendrobium linealeDendrobium lineale2 recordsDiplocaulobium · CC BY-SA 3.0
Purging Cassia
Purging CassiaCassia fistula2 recordsDelonix · CC BY-SA 3.0
Distimake dissectus
Distimake dissectusDistimake dissectus2 recordsVictor Farjalla · CC0
Pseudopogonatherum irritansPseudopogonatherum irritans3 records
Cullen badocanumCullen badocanum2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

56out of 100

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

  • 36%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 90%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 97Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 52 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in July.

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

  1. Jan28°22°225 mm
  2. Feb28°22°153 mm
  3. Mar28°22°292 mm
  4. Apr28°22°139 mm
  5. May28°21°75 mm
  6. Jun29°20°69 mm
  7. Jul29°19°24 mm
  8. Aug30°19°42 mm
  9. Sep32°20°40 mm
  10. Oct32°21°47 mm
  11. Nov32°22°70 mm
  12. Dec31°22°109 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

National Capital Botanical Gardens.

National Capital Botanical Gardens is an arboretum in Papua New Guinea.

Seen from space, 36% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 90% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

97 species have been recorded around it: 11 plants, 0 fungi, 86 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ear-leaf Acacia, Ghost gum and Bothriochloa decipiens.

The best time to walk is in May and in July.

National Capital Botanical Gardens seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

Get there and walk

  • Comfort Innplace to stay · 0.4 km · 85 within 10 km
  • Port Moresbynearest town · 5.2 km in a straight line
  • Port Moresby Jacksons International Airport (POM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 4 km in a straight line

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.

National Capital Botanical Gardens 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

  • 10picnic sites within 4 km
  • 148shelters and huts within 6 kmLowCovenant House, Boroko Bus Terminal and 146 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmDiscover PNG
  • 55car parks within 3 km
  • 85places to stay within 10 kmComfort Inn, Mapang Missionary House, Shady Rest Hotel and 82 more
  • 29restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • campsites within 10 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 National Capital Botanical Gardens.

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.

Peakyas22 mountains within 25 km
Burns Peak105 m · 3.3 kmTuaguba Hill4.4 kmStokes Range5.9 kmTaurama7.9 kmMarauder Hill16 kmGoari Hills18 kmLittle Mount Lawes19 kmConical Peak55 m · 23 km
Islandyasthe island
New Guinea785,753 km²
Coastya6 beaches within 10 km
Ela Beach4.7 kmUbuna9.0 kmTaurama Beach9.1 kmHourata9.3 kmKirra Beach9.5 kmFingal Beach9.5 km

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

Other forests nearby.

National Capital Botanical Gardens

Papua New Guinea

  • 56Forestyas Score
  • 36%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 97Species

Lae Botanic Gardens

Papua New Guinea · 306 km

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 192Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2692902) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,812 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, Coastya

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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