Talk:Thorpdale, Victoria

A fact from Thorpdale, Victoria appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 February 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a mountain ash growing in the small Australian town of Thorpdale, Victoria once held the record for the tallest tree in the world?

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Tallest tree

So what happened, did it shrink, did it die, fall down? The tallest tree at this moment is the Stratosphere Giant at 112 m (see Sequoia). Piet 09:18, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Moreover, The Sequoia article states that the highest tree ever measured was 113.6 m. If this tree was 114 m that is wrong. Or was the measurement incorrect? Piet 10:08, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, they all fall down eventually, don't they? It was measured once while it was standing and once after it fell, I know that much. I think Sequoia is wrong, 113 is just a piddler. ;P PDF file says:

The world’s tallest tree ever recorded was a fallen Eucalyptus regnans tree measured at 133 m at 
Watts River, Victoria, in 1872 (Carder 1995). The tree, reported by William Ferguson, had a broken 
top and the entire tree was estimated to have once been over 500 feet (152 m) tall. However, there 
is some doubt (e.g. Maiden 1904, cited in Carder 1995) about the veracity of this and other early 
records, and the tallest eucalypt tree acknowledged by some sources was a 115 m E. regnans felled 
in 1880 at Thorpdale, Victoria, and measured by a certified surveyor, George Cornthwaite (Hardy 
1935).

Carder, A.C. (1995). Forest Giants of the World, Past and Present. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Ontario.
Maiden, J.H. (1907). The giant trees of Australia. In: Forest Flora of New South Wales, pp. 161–165.
Hardy, A.D. (1935). Australia’s giant trees. Victorian Naturalist 51: 231–241.

So there you go. It was felled. I originally found out about it because of someone writing here that it was in the 1977 Guiness Book of Wolrd Records. How reliable they are is anyone's guess. pfctdayelise (translate?) 10:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work. I'll change the Sequoia article unless you do it first. See you around. Piet 11:19, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(sigh) Piet 13:28, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Historicity of the Thorpdale Tree

This resource gives ALL the details regarding the tree at Thorpdale, which was measured at 370 ft tall, and measured again after being felled, at 375 feet tall by George Cornthwaite: http://members.optusnet.com.au/mruhsam/THORPDALETREE.html

And this rare old photo taken in 1890 shows many of the trees, up to 365 feet - tall (111 meters) which surrounded the property of an early settler of Thorpdale: http://members.optusnet.com.au/mruhsam/LLOYDHOMESTEAD.jpg

--75.175.54.162 (talk) 05:31, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]