Boab Prison Tree

Boab Prison Tree

The Boab Prison Tree is a large hollow "Adansonia gregorii" (Boab) tree just south of Derby, Western Australia. It is reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a lockup for Indigenous Australian prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing. It is now a tourist attraction.

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