Corridor forest · The Dunes
The Dune Heads
Flat green heads on white stems, holding the sand down. The shade moves as the day does.
The Dune Heads is a walkable stand of 81 dunepine trees in The Dunes, 188 m along its long axis, with the lowest crown 14.8 m overhead.
Measured
- Centre — x 610, z 470
- Ground height — 13.5 m
- Band — The Dunes
- Species — dunepine
- Trees — 81
- Solid pieces — 328
- Footprint — 188 m by 124 m
- Outer radius — 86.7 m
- Trunk height — 19 m to 24 m
- Lowest crown — 14.8 m
- Narrowest gap between trunks — 7.1 m
- Crown cover — 2.8× the ground beneath
- Nearest named place — Saltmeadow, 209 m away
- From Landfall — 494 m south
The trees
Rounded crowns, stacked, closing overhead into a roof rather than a ceiling.
81 trunks stand on a triangular lattice 12.0 m apart, each jittered up to 1.7 m off its cell so no two rows line up. Trunks run 19 m to 24 m, and the lowest 78% of one is bare — which is the whole reason you can see down a lane here instead of standing in a bush. The first crown starts 14.8 m above your head.
The narrowest passage this species can produce between two trunk colliders is 7.1 m, which is the floor for the entire stand: everything else in it is further apart than that.
Walking it
The footprint is 188 m by 124 m, turned on its own axis so it follows the land rather than the compass. A lane 6.4 m wide is kept clear along the long axis and a glade 11 m across sits at the heart of it — the two places in a closed forest where you can see the sky.
328 solid pieces in total: trunks, and the fallen logs you can stand on. Ground litter, light shafts and drifts are drawn but carry no collider.