The so-called prison tree is a large hollow boab just south of Derby in Western Australia. It is reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a holding cell for Aboriginal prisoners on their way to ...

The famous Boab prison tree found 5km south-east of the remote north-western WA town of Derby. Image credit: shutterstock The boab tree, an icon of the Kimberley. In 1820, on first encountering a boab ...

image: The so-called "prison tree," a boab tree near Derby, Western Australia. view more Credit: Dr. Elizabeth Grant. New research involving the University of Adelaide is helping to expose a myth ...

The tree’s gnarled trunk. Author provided. But our research has found that the Derby boab was never used as an Aboriginal prison, a holding area or as a staging point.

The Boab Prison Tree. The Boab Prison Tree is a hollowed out Adansonia gregorii located south of Derby, WA. Follow us and access great exclusive content every day. Shutterstock Prisoners.

A 'Prison Tree' in Western Australia's north was never used as a holding cell for Aboriginal prisoners, according to new research. The history of the centuries old boab near Derby has been ...

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Let’s begin with a small attempt to understand one of Nature’s marvels. Looking like a misfit, the boab tree, also known as ...

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After two years of fieldwork, a group of researchers and First Nations Australians have announced the discovery of centuries-old carvings on 12 boab trees in Australia’s Tanami Desert.

This myth has not gone unchallenged. In the 1960s, for example, the Australian Women’s Weekly reported that the boab outside Derby “was probably never used as a prison” tree.