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Thurston Gardens

Tucoxn · CC BY-SA 3.0

11% trees around it and 50 species recorded.

42Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km11%
  • wild within 10 km93%
  • species recorded50

The forest around

11% 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 20%Grassland 14%Water 34%Built-up 33%Trees 10%Mangroves 0%Grassland 6%Water 66%Bare ground 1%Built-up 17%Trees 14%Mangroves 2%Grassland 4%Water 72%Built-up 9%Trees 28%Mangroves 2%Grassland 4%Water 62%Built-up 4%11%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km20%
  • 1–3 km10%
  • 3–6 km14%
  • 6–10 km28%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees10%
  • Mangroves0%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water66%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Built-up17%

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

50 species recorded.

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

Rhizophora stylosa
Rhizophora stylosaRhizophora stylosa4 recordsKevin Thiele from Perth, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Whisk fern
Whisk fernPsilotum nudum2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kleberg's bluestem
Kleberg's bluestemDichanthium annulatum2 recordsMacleay Grass Man · CC BY 2.0
Giant granadilla
Giant granadillaPassiflora quadrangularis2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sensitive Plant
Sensitive PlantMimosa pudica2 recordsSteve Fitzgerald · CC BY-SA 4.0
Breadfruit
BreadfruitArtocarpus altilis2 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Indian jujube
Indian jujubeZiziphus mauritiana2 recordsEthel Aardvark · CC BY 3.0
Shellplant
ShellplantAlpinia zerumbet2 recordsSemnoz · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

42out of 100

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

  • 11%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 93%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 50Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from July to August.

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

  1. Jan28°24°273 mm
  2. Feb28°24°299 mm
  3. Mar28°24°342 mm
  4. Apr27°23°274 mm
  5. May26°22°184 mm
  6. Jun25°21°137 mm
  7. Jul25°20°94 mm
  8. Aug25°20°94 mm
  9. Sep26°20°128 mm
  10. Oct26°21°207 mm
  11. Nov27°22°228 mm
  12. Dec28°23°286 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Thurston Gardens.

Botanical gardens of Fiji

Thurston Gardens is an arboretum in Fiji.

Seen from space, 11% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 93% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

50 species have been recorded around it: 8 plants, 0 fungi, 41 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Rhizophora stylosa, Whisk fern and Kleberg's bluestem.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

Thurston Gardens from Cakobau Rd and QE Dr
Tucoxn · 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.

Thurston 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km"Bat Trees" (Roosting area for fruit bats)
  • 32shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 44car parks within 3 km
  • 45places to stay within 10 kmSouth Seas Private Hotel, Suva Motor Inn, New Southern Cross and 42 more
  • 67restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Thurston 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.

Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Wairua5.7 kmNdelaitumbani8.3 kmSauniwangga12 kmNdomonuku15 kmNdelanangai16 kmNdavuilevu16 kmRaralevu22 kmSakisa23 km
Islandyasthe island
Viti Levu10,531 km²
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Waisila Falls11 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.

Thurston Garden Clock Tower Suva MatthiasSuessen-7811
User:Matthias Süßen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Clock Tower Suva MatthiasSuessen-8428
User:Matthias Süßen · CC BY-SA 3.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4275602) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,461 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, Cascadyas

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

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