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12 Days of Wonder: World's Loneliest Tree

12 Days of Wonder: World's Loneliest Tree

Update: 2025-12-111
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About 400 miles south of New Zealand, on the subantarctic Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku, stands a Sitka spruce whose nearest neighbor is 170 miles away.

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11:37 I have a simular sense about being alone. I don't call it "isolation" but rather "insulation" this story reminds me of a monster in my home town it is called the Tree Crusher. made in Longview Texas and shipped to the wilds of Northern Canada back when we were friends 20 or so years after they built the Alaska Highwqy.

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12 Days of Wonder: World's Loneliest Tree

12 Days of Wonder: World's Loneliest Tree

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