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National Heritage List (Australia)

National heritage register of Australia

National heritage register of Australia

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data1Heritage register of natural, historic and indigenous places that are not owned by the Commonwealth of Australia
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data2Australia
label3Status
label4Years
data42003–present
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data5Register of the National Estate
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data6Commonwealth of Australia via the Australian Heritage Council
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The Australian National Heritage List or National Heritage List (NHL) is a heritage register, a list of national heritage places deemed to be of outstanding heritage significance to Australia, established in 2003. The list includes natural and historic places, including those of cultural significance to Indigenous Australians such as Aboriginal Australian sacred sites. Having been assessed against a set list of criteria, once a place is put on the National Heritage List, the provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) apply.

All places on this list can be found on the online Australian Heritage Database, along with other places on other Australian and world heritage listings.

History

The National Heritage List was established in 2003 by an amendment to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

The National Heritage List, together with the Commonwealth Heritage List, replaced the former Register of the National Estate, which was closed and archived in 2007. Places on the National Heritage List are places of outstanding heritage value for Australia, while the Commonwealth Heritage List are heritage places that are owned or controlled by the Commonwealth of Australia.

Criteria for listing

The National Heritage List is a list of places deemed to be of outstanding heritage significance to Australia. Once on the list, the provisions of the EPBC Act apply. To be included on the list, a nominated place is assessed by the Australian Heritage Council against nine criteria:

  • importance in the course, or pattern, of Australia's natural or cultural history
  • possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Australia's natural or cultural history
  • potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Australia's natural or cultural history
  • importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of Australia's natural or cultural places or environments
  • importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics valued by a community or cultural group
  • importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period
  • strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons
  • special association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons, of importance in Australia's natural or cultural history
  • importance as part of Indigenous tradition.

In addition, the place must pass a "significance threshold"; it must have 'outstanding' heritage value to the nation as a whole. This is determined by comparison to other similar places. Once the Heritage Council has made an assessment, it forwards a recommendation to the Minister for the Environment, who shall make a determination.

Composition

, the Australian National Heritage List comprised 120 heritage places as follows:

State/territoryNumber of places(duplicates):(4){{efnThe following historic resources are included within multiple state lists:Total:120
Australian Capital Territory5
New South Wales36
Northern Territory4
Queensland13
South Australia8
Tasmania11
Victoria32
Western Australia15
Other territories3

List

The Australian National Heritage List comprises these sites:

#ImageListed placeStateDate listedCoordinatesNotes
1[[File:Carols at the Abbostford Convent 2009.JPG150px]]Abbotsford Convent
(listing)Victoria31 August 2017
2[[File:Rymill park.JPG150px]]Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout
(listing)South Australia7 November 2008
3[[File:Shine dome.jpg150px]]Australian Academy of Science Building
(listing)Australian Capital Territory21 November 2005
4[[File:Mount-howitt-summit.jpg150px]]Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Alpine National Park
(listing)Victoria7 November 2008
Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Avon Wilderness
(listing)Victoria
[[File:Baw-baw-view-gippsland.jpg150px]]Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Baw Baw National Park
(listing)Victoria
[[File:Bimberi Wilderness.jpg150px]]Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Bimberi Nature Reserve
(listing)New South Wales
[[File:BrindabellaValleyAndGoodradigbeeRiver.jpg150px]]Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Brindabella National Park
(listing)New South Wales
[[File:AU Kosciuszko L Cootapatamba.jpg150px]]Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Kosciuszko National Park
(listing)New South Wales
[[File:Mt buffalo plateau.jpg150px]]Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Mount Buffalo National Park
(listing)Victoria
[[File:Mount Ginini - Namadgi National Park - 2.jpg150px]]Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Namadgi National Park
(listing)Australian Capital Territory
Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Scabby Range Nature Reserve
(listing)New South Wales
[[File:Little River Gorge.jpg150px]]Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Snowy River National Park
(listing)Victoria
[[File:Tidbinbilla Kangaroo.jpg150px]]Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve
(listing)Australian Capital Territory
5[[File:Brickendon farm.jpg150px]]Australian Convict Sites – Brickendon Estate
(listing)Tasmania23 June 2007World Heritage Site 2010
[[File:CascadesWomens.jpg150px]]Australian Convict Sites – Cascades Female Factory and Yard 4 North
(listing)Tasmania1 August 2007
[[File:Saltwater Creek ruins 2.jpg150px]]Australian Convict Sites – Coal Mines Historic Site
(listing)Tasmania1 August 2007
[[File:CockatooIslandPanorama.jpg150px]]Australian Convict Sites – Cockatoo Island
(listing)New South Wales1 August 2007
[[File:Commissariat Store 1825.jpg150px]]Australian Convict Sites – Darlington Probation Station
(listing)Tasmania1 August 2007
[[File:Fremantle prison main cellblock.JPG150px]]Australian Convict Sites – Fremantle Prison
(listing)Western Australia1 August 2005
[[File:Cutting devine hill.jpg150px]]Australian Convict Sites – Old Great North Road
(listing)New South Wales1 August 2007
[[File:Macquarie Night Lights 031-1.jpg150px]]Australian Convict Sites – Hyde Park Barracks
(listing)New South Wales1 August 2007
[[File:Norfolk Island jail1.jpg150px]]Australian Convict Sites – Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area
(listing)Norfolk Island1 August 2007
[[File:Parramatta-NSW-GovernmentHouse.jpg150px]]Australian Convict Sites – Old Government House and Government Domain
(listing)New South Wales1 August 2007
[[File:PortArthurPenitentiary.jpg150px]]Australian Convict Sites – Port Arthur Historic site
(listing)Tasmania3 June 2005
[[File:WoolmersEstateLongford.jpg150px]]Australian Convict Sites – Woolmers Estate
(listing)Tasmania23 November 2007
6[[File:Burra mine site.JPG150px]]Australian Cornish Mining Sites – Burra
(listing)South Australia9 May 2017
[[File:Moonta Mines Hughes' Enginehouse 4 (22049325459).jpg150px]]Australian Cornish Mining Sites – Moonta
(listing)
7[[File:Thylacoleo skeleton in Naracoorte Caves.jpg150px]]Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Naracoorte)
(listing)South Australia21 May 2007Inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1994
[[File:Riversleigh.jpg150px]]Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh)
(listing)Queensland{{Coord19.083S138.717Ename=Riversleigh}}World Heritage Site 1994
8[[File:The National War Memorial, Canberra.JPG150px]]Australian War Memorial and the Memorial Parade
(listing)Australian Capital Territory25 April 2006
9[[File:Wallabi Group (excluding North Island).jpg150px]]Batavia Shipwreck Site and Survivor Camps Area 1629, Houtman Abrolhos
(listing)Western Australia6 April 2006
10[[File:Bondi Beach.jpg150px]]Bondi Beach
(listing)New South Wales25 January 2008
11[[File:BonegillaMigrantCampSculpture.JPG150px]]Bonegilla Migrant Camp – Block 19
(listing)Victoria7 December 2007
12[[File:Brewarrina fish traps on the Barwon.JPG150px]]Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps (Baiames Ngunnhu)
(listing)New South Wales3 June 2005
13[[File:BrokenHillFromAbove1.JPG150px]]City of Broken Hill
(listing)New South Wales20 January 2015
14Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape – Tyrendarra Area
(listing)Victoria20 July 2004World Heritage Site 2019
[[File:Complex Stone Arrangement - Stony Peninsula 001.jpg150px]]Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape – Mount Eccles Lake Condah Area
(listing)World Heritage Site 2019
15[[File:Burke and Wills dig tree 2.JPG150px]]The Burke, Wills, King and Yandruwandha National Heritage Place
(listing)Queensland, South Australia22 January 2016
16[[File:Castlemaine Diggings 002.JPG150px]]Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park
(listing)Victoria27 January 2005
17[[File:Centennial Park NSW 2021, Australia - panoramio (1).jpg150px]]Centennial Park
(listing)New South Wales3 October 2018
18Cheetup Rock Shelter
(listing)Western Australia23 October 2009
19[[File:Barak's grave headstone.JPG150px]]Coranderrk
(listing)Victoria7 June 2011
20[[File:Cyprus-Hellene Club 150-152 Elizabeth Street Sydney.jpg150px]]Cyprus Hellene Club - Australian Hall
(listing)New South Wales20 May 2008Site of the Aboriginal Day of Mourning in 1938
21Dampier Archipelago
(listing)Western Australia3 July 2007
22[[File:Cape Inscription Lighthouse.jpg150px]]Dirk Hartog Landing Site 1616 – Cape Inscription Area
(listing)Western Australia6 April 2006
23[[File:ConversationBuilding LarkQuarry.jpg150px]]Dinosaur Stampede National Monument
(listing)Queensland20 July 2004
24[[File:EchucaWharf.JPG150px]]Echuca Wharf
(listing)Victoria26 April 2007
25[[File:Ediacaran-GSSP-IMGP6652-.jpg150px]]Ediacara Fossil Site – Nilpena
(listing)South Australia11 January 2007
26Elizabeth Springs
(listing)Queensland4 August 2009
27[[File:Eureka 150th official commemoration.jpg150px]]Eureka Stockade Gardens
(listing)Victoria8 December 2004
28[[File:Museum of Sydney.jpg150px]]First Government House Site, Sydney
(listing)New South Wales19 August 2005
29[[File:Gairdnerriver.jpg150px]]Fitzgerald River National Park
(listing)Western Australia6 May 2016
30[[File:Flemington Racecourse.jpg150px]]Flemington Racecourse
(listing)Victoria7 November 2006
31[[File:Fraser Island view from Indian Head.jpg150px]]Fraser Island
(listing)Queensland21 May 2007World Heritage Site 1992
32[[File:Glass House Mountains.jpg150px]]Glass House Mountains National Landscape
(listing)Queensland3 August 2006
33[[File:GlenrowanHistoricPoliceStation.JPG150px]]Glenrowan Heritage Precinct
(listing)Victoria5 July 2005Site of the Siege of Glenrowan and the capture of Ned Kelly
34[[File:Mundaring Weir SMC4.jpg150px]]Goldfields Water Supply Scheme
(listing)Western Australia23 June 2011
35[[File:Barrington lookout.jpg150px]]Gondwana Rainforests – Barrington Tops Area
(listing)New South Wales21 May 2007World Heritage Site 1986
[[File:Toonumbar National Park - Syzygium francisii & Argyrodendron trifoliolatum.jpg150px]]Gondwana Rainforests – Focal Peak Group
(listing)NSW, Qld
[[File:Werrikimbe.jpg150px]]Gondwana Rainforests – Hastings-Macleay Group
(listing)New South Wales
[[File:Ficus watkinsiana on Syzygium hemilampra-Iluka.jpg150 px]]Gondwana Rainforests – Iluka Nature Reserve
(listing)New South Wales
[[File:Mount Mitchell1.jpg150px]]Gondwana Rainforests – Main Range National Park
(listing)NSW, Qld
[[File:Dorrigo NP.jpg150px]]Gondwana Rainforests – New England Group
(listing)New South Wales
[[File:Ships Stern Lamington National Park.jpg150px]]Gondwana Rainforests – Shield Volcano Group
(listing)NSW, Qld
[[File:Washpool.jpg150px]]Gondwana Rainforests – Washpool and Gibraltar Range
(listing)New South Wales
36[[File:SydneyBay1 ST 03.jpg150px]]Governors' Domain and Civic Precinct
(listing)New South Wales10 February 2021
37[[File:Grampians 12 4 05 to 15 4 05 039.jpg150px]]Grampians National Park (Gariwerd)
(listing)Victoria15 December 2006
38[[File:Amazing Great Barrier Reef 1.jpg150px]]Great Barrier Reef
(listing)Queensland21 May 2007World Heritage Site 1981
39[[File:Blue Mountains.jpg150px]]Greater Blue Mountains Area
(listing)New South Wales21 May 2007World Heritage Site 2000
40[[File:The twelve apostles Victoria Australia 2010.jpg150px]]Great Ocean Road
(listing)Victoria7 April 2011
41[[File:HMAS Sydney (AWM 301473) cropped.jpg150px]]HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran shipwreck sites
(listing)Western Australia14 March 2011The two ships lie 22 km apart.
42[[File:Cerberus 2007.JPG150px]]HMVS Cerberus
(listing)Victoria14 December 2005
43[[File:The melancholy loss of HMS Sirius off Norfolk Island March 19th 1790 - George Raper (cropped).jpg150px]]HMS Sirius
(listing)Norfolk Island25 October 2011
44[[File:Heard Island.jpg150px]]Heard and McDonald Islands
(listing)External territory21 May 2007World Heritage Site 1997
45[[File:Hermannsburg NT.jpg150px]]Hermannsburg Historic Precinct
(listing)Northern Territory13 April 2006
46[[File:HCA Melbourne LtBourke.jpg150px]]Old High Court Building, Melbourne
(listing)Victoria11 July 2007
47[[File:High Court of Australia.jpg150px]]High Court – National Gallery precinct
(listing)Australian Capital Territory23 November 2007
48[[File:Orica House.jpg150px]]ICI Building
(listing)Victoria21 September 2005
49[[File:Camp-Kutalayna.jpg150px]]Jordan River Levee
(listing)Tasmania23 December 2011Archeological site on a tributary of the River Derwent
50[[File:View across Botany Bay from Inscription Point.jpg150px]]Kamay Botany Bay
(listing)New South Wales15 December 2006
51[[File:Lion Island at sunset.jpg150px]]Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Lion Island, Long Island and Spectacle Island Nature Reserves
(listing)New South Wales15 December 2006
52[[File:Kakadu 2411.jpg150px]]Kakadu National Park
(listing)Northern Territory21 May 2007World Heritage Site 1981
53[[File:Captain Cook's Monument, Kurnell.jpg150px]]Kurnell Peninsula Headland
(listing)New South Wales20 September 2004James Cook's first landing site in Australia in 1770
54Koonalda Cave
(listing)South Australia15 October 2014
55[[File:29 Mount Michaud Lesueur NP XI-2013.jpeg150px]]Lesueur National Park
(listing)Western Australia6 May 2016
56[[File:Lord Howe Island from North.jpg150px]]Lord Howe Island Group
(listing)New South Wales21 May 2007World Heritage Site 1982
57[[File:MacquarieIslandIsthmus.JPG150px]]Macquarie Island
(listing)Tasmania21 May 2007World Heritage Site 1997
58[[File:Mawsons Hut at Cape Denison.jpg150px]]Mawsons Huts and Mawsons Huts Historic site
(listing)Australian Antarctic Territory27 January 2005
59[[File:Mcg melb.JPG150px]]Melbourne Cricket Ground
(listing)Victoria26 December 2005
60[[File:IA2015 gnangarra-146.jpg150px]]Melbourne's Domain Parkland and Memorial Precinct
(listing)Victoria11 February 2018"The area was previously included in the National Heritage List using the emergency listing provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999 on 13 February 2017. The area was reviewed further under these provisions leading to a decision to keep the place with some alterations to its boundary and heritage values."
61[[File:Student Action for Aborigines protest outside Moree Artesian Baths, February 1965 - The Tribune (20642815940).jpg150px]]Moree Baths and Swimming Pool Complex
(listing)New South Wales6 September 2013
62[[File:Mount William Aboriginal stone axe quarry.jpg150px]]Mount William Stone Hatchet Quarry
(listing)Victoria25 February 2008
63[[File:Murtoa Stick Shed.JPG150px]]Murtoa Stick Shed
(listing)Victoria1 October 2014
64Myall Creek Massacre and Memorial Site
(listing)New South Wales7 June 2008
65[[File:Newman College - Dining from courtyard.JPG150px]]Newman College
(listing)Victoria21 September 2005
66[[File:Ningaloo.jpg150px]]The Ningaloo Coast
(listing)Western Australia6 January 2010World Heritage Site 2011
67[[File:Ngarrabullgin001.JPG150px]]Ngarrabullgan
(listing)Queensland12 May 2011
68[[File:North Heads 2.JPG150px]]North Head, Sydney
(listing)New South Wales12 May 2006
69[[File:Old Parliament House Canberra NS.jpg150px]]Old Parliament House and Curtilage
(listing)Australian Capital Territory20 June 2006
70[[File:CSIRO ScienceImage 4350 CSIROs Parkes Radio Telescope with moon in the background.jpg150px]]Parkes Observatory
(listing)New South Wales10 August 2020
71[[File:Lockheed C-130A Hercules (A97-214) at the RAAF Museum.jpg150px]]Point Cook Air Base
(listing)Victoria29 August 2007
72[[File:Artillery at Point Nepean 3.jpg150px]]Point Nepean Defence Sites and Quarantine Station Area
(listing)Victoria16 June 2006
73[[File:Devils-slide-frombatespk.jpg150px]]Porongurup National Park
(listing)Western Australia4 August 2009
74[[File:Purnululu2.jpg150px]]Purnululu National Park
(listing)Western Australia21 May 2007World Heritage Site 2003
75[[File:Qantas hangar Longreach.jpg150px]]QANTAS hangar, Longreach
(listing)Queensland2 May 2009
76[[File:Aerial photograph of Queen Victoria Market.jpg150px]]Queen Victoria Market
(listing)Victoria23 July 2018
77[[File:Quinkan1.jpg150px]]Quinkan Country
(listing)Queensland10 November 2018
78[[File:Recherche Bay near Cockle creek.jpg150px]]Recherche Bay (North East Peninsula) Area
(listing)Tasmania7 October 2005
79[[File:Richmond Bridge Panorama Restitch.jpg150px]]Richmond Bridge
(listing)Tasmania25 November 2005
80[[File:Rippon Lea Estate, Victoria.jpg150px]]Rippon Lea House and Gardens
(listing)Victoria11 August 2006
81[[File:Royal exhibition building tulips straight.jpg150px]]Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens
(listing)Victoria20 July 2004World Heritage Site 2004
82[[File:Palm Jungle.jpg150px]]Royal National Park and Garawarra State Conservation Area
(listing)New South Wales15 September 2006
83[[File:Stromatolites in Shark Bay.jpg150px]]Shark Bay
(listing)Western Australia21 May 2007World Heritage Site 1991
84[[File:Sidney Myer Music Bowl Aerial View.jpg150px]]Sidney Myer Music Bowl
(listing)Victoria21 September 2005
85[[File:Snowy hydro murray 1 machine hall floor.jpg150px]]Snowy Mountains Scheme
(listing)New South Wales14 October 2016
86[[File:Adelaide parliament house.JPG150px]]South Australia's Parliament House
(listing)South Australia26 January 2006
87[[File:Bluff knoll 01 gnangarra.jpg150px]]Stirling Range National Park
(listing)Western Australia15 December 2006
88[[File:Sydney harbour bridge new south wales.jpg150px]]Sydney Harbour Bridge
(listing)New South Wales19 March 2007
89[[File:Sydney Opera House - Dec 2008.jpg150px]]Sydney Opera House
(listing)New South Wales12 July 2005World Heritage Site 2007
90[[File:CradleMountain.jpg150px]]Tasmanian Wilderness
(listing)Tasmania21 May 2007World Heritage Site 1982
91[[File:Tree of knowledge monument 1.jpg150px]]Tree of Knowledge, Barcaldine
(listing)Queensland26 January 2006Poisoned in 2006 and felled in 2007
92[[File:UluruClip3ArtC1941.jpg150px]]Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
(listing)Northern Territory21 May 2007World Heritage Site 1987
93[[File:The Breadknife.jpg150px]]Warrumbungle National Park
(listing)New South Wales15 December 2006
94Wave Hill walk-off route
(listing)Northern Territory9 August 2007
95[[File:Sundown-Point-coast-20160924-004.jpg150px]]Western Tasmania Aboriginal Cultural Landscape
(listing)Tasmania8 February 2013
96[[File:Lennard River.jpg150px]]West Kimberley
(listing)Western Australia31 August 2011
97[[File:Kuranda - Barron Gorge lookout.jpg150px]]Wet Tropics of Queensland
(listing)Queensland21 May 2007World Heritage Site 1988
98Wilgie Mia
(listing)Western Australia24 February 2011
99[[File:MungoNP.jpg150px]]Willandra Lakes Region
(listing)New South Wales21 May 2007World Heritage Site 1981
Includes Lake Mungo
100[[File:Dalhousie Ruins - palms and old buildings in Witjira.JPG150px]]Witjira-Dalhousie Springs
(listing)South Australia4 August 2009
101[[File:Macassan stone arrangement.jpgframeless150x150px]]Wurrwurrwuy stone arrangements
(listing)Northern Territory7 August 2013
102Yea Flora Fossil Site
(listing)Victoria11 January 2007

Notes

  • One of 15 World Heritage places included in the National Heritage List on 21 May 2007.
  • Yard 4 North was added on 4 August 2009.

Further notes about table

References

References

  1. (23 September 2003). "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999". Australian Government.
  2. "Register of the National Estate". Australian Government.
  3. "Heritage places and lists".
  4. "Australia's National Heritage List".
  5. "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999". Australian Government.
  6. "National Heritage List criteria". Department of the Environment and Energy, [[Australian Government]].
  7. "Search: National Heritage List". Department of the Environment and Energy, [[Australian Government]].
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