Land on which kauri trees once grew, often still yielding valuable kauri gum but typically with poor-quality soil.
deep drains were cut through the gum country
Example sentencesExamples
- Is there much gum country in the district?
- The gum country varies in quality.
- They began leasing huge areas of gum country and engaging diggers to work it.
- The development of the district really commenced with the coming of the railway, transforming it from "useless gum country" to the rich and fertile land of today.
- The "Gum Country" lies to the north of Auckland, and fossil gum from by-gone kauri trees is obtained in large quantities.
- Ten miles out the red gum country begins.
- Some of these areas of gum country have been in private hands for years.
- The remaining 810 acres is poor gum country.
- The Government have a lot of gum country up north, where gum-digging was going on prior to the war.
- Draining and cultivation will stop the nuisance in dug-over gum country.