# Flagstaff Gardens

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne's oldest public park, spread across roughly 7 hectares on a rise once known as Burial Hill. It served as the colony's first cemetery, then a signal station and observatory, before being proclaimed a garden in 1862.

## Roots Earth

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Coordinates: -37.8105, 144.9544

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