Fig Tree Pocket

Fig Tree Pocket, a residential suburb on the Brisbane River, is 9 km south-west of central Brisbane. Bounded on three sides by the river, thus creating a land pocket, the name came about from a giant fig tree around which a reserve was created in 1866.

The distance to Fig Tree Pocket by river is two and a half times the straight-line distance from the city, and by road via the Centenary Highway it is about 14 km. Consequently the district was rural until the late postwar years, and was best known for the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary (1927).