businesses adopting its name. It used to mark the boundary of Windsor Great Park. Legend says that Queen Elizabeth I stopped by it and had a picnic. The Angel Oak is a southern live oak located in Angel Oak Park on John's Island near Charleston, South Carolina. The Angel Oak is estimated to be in excess of 400–500 years old, stands tall, and measures in circumference. The Kaiser's Oak, located at the village of Gommecourt in Artois, France, named in honour of Kaiser Wilhelm II, symbolically marked from late 1914 to April 1917 the furthest point in the West of the German Imperial Army during World War I. The Wye Oak in Maryland was the United States' largest white oak tree before it blew down in a storm in 2002, at an estimated age of 460 years. The Bland Oak in Sydney, Australia, planted in the 1840s, was the largest tree in Australia until it was split in a storm early on New Year Day 1941. The Treaty Oak in Austin, Texas, is a Texas live oak, and the last surviving member of the Council Oaks, a grove of 14 trees that served as a sacred meeting place for Comanche and Tonkawa tribes prior to European settlement of the area. The Wilberforce Oak was a pollard pedunculate oak in Keston, Kent, under which William Wilberforce resolved to propose the abolition of the slave trade to the House of Commons in 1787. The original was a hollow shell by 1969; its young replacement then blew down in the Great Storm of 1987, and the third generation oak now stands in its place. The Tree That Owns Itself in Athens, Georgia is a White Oak that, it is falsely claimed, has legally obtained ownership of the land it sits on and itself. References Bibliography Byfield, Liz (1990) An Oak Tree, Collins book bus, London: Collins Educational, Philips, Roger. Trees of North America and Europe, Random House, New York , 1979. Logan, William B. (2005) Oak: The Frame of Civilization, New York; London: W. W. Norton, Paterson, R.T . (1993) Use of Trees by Livestock, 5: Quercus, Chatham: Natural Resources Institute, Royston, Angela (2000) Life Cycle of an Oak Tree, Heinemann first library, Oxford : Heinemann Library, Savage, Stephen (1994) Oak Tree, Observing nature series, Hove: Wayland, Tansley, Arthur G., Sir (1952) Oaks and Oak Woods, Field study books, London: Methuen. Żukow-Karczewski, Marek