What Do Tasmania and California Have in Common?

Hint: It’s really, really tall trees.

Some trees feel older than memory, pressing skyward for what seems like forever.

If you’ve ever walked through the old growth giants of Redwoods National Park, it truly feels like a religious experience.

Indeed, California has several of the world’s tallest trees. However, far across the globe, the island of Tasmania also holds a number of record breaking trees, with heights that feel unreal.

(As we posted this, we were reminded how sharing images of extremely tall trees never does them justice. Seeing these enormous living things in person is always a more rewarding experience.)

From California’s misty coasts to Tasmania’s rugged valleys, the tallest trees in the world stretch past imagination.

These giants remind us that scale is not just about numbers, but about the stories living things carry.

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Ten of the Tallest trees in the world

Rank	Name	Species	Height	Location
1	Hyperion	Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)	~380 ft	California
2	Centurion	Eucalyptus regnans	~327 ft	Tasmania
3	Doerner Fir	Douglas-fir	~327 ft	Oregon
4	Raven’s Tower	Sitka Spruce	~317 ft	California
5	Unnamed Giant Sequoia	Sequoiadendron giganteum	~314 ft	California
6	Yellow Meranti	Shorea faguetiana	~309 ft	Borneo
7	White Knight	Manna Gum	~301 ft	Tasmania
8	Neeminah Loggorale Meena	Blue Gum	~298 ft	Tasmania
9	Alpine Ash	Eucalyptus delegatensis	~288 ft	Tasmania
10	King Stringy	Brown Top Stringybark	~282 ft	Tasmania

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California’s Sky Reachers

California is home to three of the tallest:

• Hyperion, the record-holding coast redwood, nearly 380 feet tall.
• Raven’s Tower, a Sitka spruce hidden in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, rising 317 feet.
• An Unnamed Giant Sequoia in Sequoia National Forest, 314 feet of living history.

In California’s fog-draped forests, these trees are monuments to time, endurance, and patience.

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Tasmania’s Wild Giants

Tasmania holds its own, with three remarkable trees among the world’s tallest:

• Centurion, a Eucalyptus regnans, at 327 feet.
• White Knight, a manna gum that glows silver in the mist, standing 301 feet.
• Neeminah Loggorale Meena, a blue gum with a name as lyrical as its towering form, at 298 feet.

Tasmania’s giants rise in rugged, remote forests where storms and shifting weather test their strength.

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Why They Matter

Numbers alone cannot capture what it feels like to stand among these giants. Each tree is a record of centuries, of fire and storm, of growth and stillness. They root us in scale, in humility, in wonder.