Memorial, Norfolk Island Pine Trees

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NameMemorial, Norfolk Island Pine TreesTypeMonument/MemorialFloraGeolocation^[1] Last edited by: Will Chittick

AddressOld Princes Highway, DunmoreDescriptionAvenue of Norfolk Island Pine trees, 'Araucaria heterophylla', are sited alternatively on both sides of the Dunmore - Croom Bends, and curve along the route of the old Princes Highway for approximately one kilometre between Dunster's Lane and the northern end of Dunmore valley. Some reach 20m high and retain their natural habitat.

Local cultural planting of Norfolk Island pines on a curving section of the Princes Highway. Each tree is an individual memorial to commemorate someone lost from those who enlisted from the Shellharbour community.

Historic associations with Arbor days and military associations with 'The Lone Pine' or ' The Aleppo Pine which was planted in the Australian War Memorial grounds by HRH The Duke of Gloucester on 24 October 1934. It bears the following inscription "After the capture of the Lone Pine ridge in Gallipoli (6 August 1915), an Australian Soldier who had taken part in the attack in which his brother was killed, found a cone on one of the branches used by the Turks as overhead cover for their trenches, and sent it to his mother. From seed shed by it she raised the tree, which she presented to be planted in the War Memorial grounds in honour of her own and others' sons who fell at Lone Pine."

Norfolk Island Pines, Old Princes Highway, Dunmore, c.2003.

Heritage Information

Heritage NSW LinkShellharbour Heritage Inventory Sheet Last edited by: Erin Tierney

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Memorial, Norfolk Island Pine Trees