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1st April 2006, 11:35 PM #1
No!! surely not an April fools...
Larry snaps iconic tree
Saturday Apr 1 12:04 AEDT
A splintered stump is all that remains of an iconic centuries-old Queensland tree shattered by Cyclone Larry.
Believed to be more than 500 years old, the 50-metre red cedar was reduced to a stump when the category-five cyclone ripped through Lake Eacham on the Atherton Tablelands in north Queensland last week.
Environment Minister Desley Boyle said the tree had been a north Queensland landmark which had enthralled tourists for decades.
"The tree dates back to when Henry V11 was on the throne in England, when China was in the middle of the Ming Dynasty when most of the Great Wall was built and when explorer Christopher Columbus died," Ms Boyle said.
Damage to the surrounding rainforest was extensive and it had been closed to the public, she said.
The tree snapped off two metres above its base and would not be removed, she said.
It belonged to the fine-grained cedar family, which was in great demand during the 1800s and became known as the tree that built a nation.
I can't believe such a magnificent tree is goneIf it's true it will be missed by many...
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1st April 2006, 11:57 PM #2
I wonder whose shed it ended up in... and whether Larry left track marks?
- Andy Mc
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4th April 2006, 04:39 PM #3
Friends just sent us a couple of pics of the left overs of the old Red Cedar tree at the end of Gadgarra Rd
There was a young boy called Wyatt
Who was awfully quiet
And then one day
He faded away
Because he overused White
Floorsanding in Canberra and Albury.....
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