Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Giant Trees In Australian Forests.
Australia lays claim to growing the tallest trees in the world, whilst Californian trees are noted not so much for height as for their girth and diameter. The tallest Californian forest giant discovered was found by actual measurement to be 340ft. high. But Australia’s record gum tree beats this by 140ft. Baron Mueller, who was formerly Government Botanist in Victoria said that the Australian gum trees attained a height of 500ft., but the tallest that the Baron every measured was a prostrate one on the Black Spur, ten miles from Healesville, which was 480ft. high. This tree was 81ft. in girth near its root. in 1889 Mr. G. W. Robinson, a civil engineer, of Berwick, in journeying from Gippsland to Mount Bore, measured a tree 471ft. in height, though the same tree had previously been estimated at not less than 500ft.
Remarkable