POSTER - Lathamus Keep

100cm x 30cm Lathamus Keep is the world champion blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) poster. This is our biggest tree portrait ever. This tree has been a very big part of our lives for so long now. It’s not just a Tree Portrait but also an icon of what we are still losing here in Tasmania. Our campaign to save this tree from logging has led us and the Tasmanian big tree community into an empowering space. Together we discovered this area holds 76 trees 15 metres in girth and an additional 10 trees that qualify for protection.

After learning that yet another pristine old growth forest was going to be logged by Sustainable Timber Tasmania Tasmanian big tree hunters Jan Corigliano and Carl Hansen decided to take a look.

It was a cold and wet Saturday in August, never the less they persisted. Soaked to the bone and with raindrops covering the lens of their laser rangefinder they were prevented from getting any accurate readings. Their initial enthusiasm for the tree was tampered but the news quickly spread.

Months later in November, a second visit by big tree climbers Shaun Green and Jack O’hare set about to climb and measure the volume of the tree. From their maximum highpoint for the day of 65m, they began to measure the stem at regular intervals all the way to ground level.

Later that evening, far past any reasonable hour the phone rang, Jack had finalised and just triple checked the results. His calculations revealed the world had a new champion blue gum at 325 cubic metres in volume.

Sadly the previous champion Strong Girl had been killed in the 2019 bushfires along with another 15 of Australia’s top 25 trees. Finding Lathamus Keep reestablished the entire species as worthy contenders for giant tree protection.

The material

Intended to be our most affordable option it is a quality CMYK 4 colour process on 200gsm satin paper. If you are thinking about investing in a frame for the poster we do recommend spending that bit more on a Canson Platine cotton fiber print.