The Explorers Tree was a Blue Mountains ash formerly located at Explorers Hill, about 2 km north-west of Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia. The tree is regarded as the one on which Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth, the explorers who achieved the first known successful crossing of the Blue Mountains o…
The Explorers Tree was a Blue Mountains ash formerly located at Explorers Hill, about 2 km north-west of Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia. The tree is regarded as the one on which Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth, the explorers who achieved the first known successful crossing of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales by European settlers, carved their initials in 1813. The claim is not universally supported however. Further, the tree was not actually mentioned in the explorer's journals and the first recorded mention of it was not until 1867.
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