Prison Boab Tree Derby

Prison Boab Tree Derby. The prison boab tree near Derby, Western Australia, Australia Stock Photo Alamy It's an impressive specimen, with a girth of almost 50 feet and a large, hollow trunk. While attracting curious visitors due to its unique natural shape, The Derby Boab Prison Tree has been named based on a highly controversial myth, dating back to the late 1940's

The prison boab tree near Derby, Western Australia, Australia Stock Photo Alamy
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It is a culturally significant site for the local Nyikina and Warrwa people (who also refer to boabs as larrgadiy). Researchers challenge the long-held notion that the famous Derby boab was used as a prison tree.

The prison boab tree near Derby, Western Australia, Australia Stock Photo Alamy

It's an impressive specimen, with a girth of almost 50 feet and a large, hollow trunk. It's an impressive specimen, with a girth of almost 50 feet and a large, hollow trunk. While attracting curious visitors due to its unique natural shape, The Derby Boab Prison Tree has been named based on a highly controversial myth, dating back to the late 1940's

Australien_282 Boab Prison Tree bei Derby Thomas Jundt Flickr. The so-called Boab Prison Tree is a 1,500-year-old boab a few miles south of Derby in Western Australia The patrol team noticed that the tree was hollow, and so they cut a small opening and put the prisoners inside

Boab Prison Tree Derby the Kimberley Charter North Safaris. With its hollow centre and a door cut into its side, the Boab Prison Tree was once used by early police patrols as a staging point for prisoners being walked into Derby [1] It had been reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a lockup for indigenous Australian prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing, but there is no evidence that it was ever used to house prisoners