Wattle Park, Melbourne
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Wattle Park's Lone Pine
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| Location | Melbourne, Australia |
| Coordinates | 37°50′20″S 145°06′16″E / 37.8390°S 145.1045°ECoordinates: 37°50′20″S 145°06′16″E / 37.8390°S 145.1045°E |
| Opened | 31 March 1917 |
| Operated by | Parks Victoria |
| Paths | Pedestrian and bicycle access throughout |
| Facilities | Toilets, barbecues, playground, golf course |
Wattle Park is a public park in Melbourne, Australia, located in the suburb of Burwood. It is known for its plantation of 12,000 wattle trees. It is currently maintained by Parks Victoria. The park provides public open space for recreation, as well as sporting facilities (accessed on a fee paying basis) and a wedding and function venue.
Wattle Park is located in the Melbourne suburb of Burwood within the City of Whitehorse, approximately 13 km east of Melbourne's CBD. There are two children's playgrounds, BBQs, tables & seats. Two heritage 'W' Class trams offer shelter. Public toilets are located near Wattle Park Chalet on Monsborough Drive, the access road off Riversdale Road. There is a large grassed sports oval, a 9-hole public golf course with cafe, and public tennis courts are available by booking. There are a number of walking tracks through the bush and a perimeter track. Dogs are permitted in the park on a lead.
Approximately one-third of the park is recorded as a heritage place by Heritage Victoria, and the National Trust of Australia has also classified the park.
The "Lone Pine" tree growing near the main carpark is listed on the National Trust's Significant Tree Register, being one of the country's few original Lone Pines. The tree was grown from the seed of a cone collected by one of the Australian soldiers involved in the Gallipoli Campaign from the lone pine tree in Gallipoli, Turkey as a reminder of this notable battle and the ANZACs' involvement in World War I. Planted in Wattle Park on 8 May 1933 at the Trooping of the Colour by the 24th Battalion, the tree was the first Lone Pine to ever be publicly planted as an ANZAC memorial, pre-dating the one planted at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance by a month, and the one at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra by seventeen months.
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