Australian National Heritage List

The Australian National Heritage List is a heritage register, a list of places deemed to be of outstanding heritage significance to Australia. The list includes natural, historic and indigenous places. Once on the National Heritage List the provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 apply.

The Australian National Heritage List, together with the Commonwealth Heritage List, replaced the former Register of the National Estate.

Criteria for listing

To be included on the list, a nominated place is assessed by the Australian Heritage Council against nine criteria:

• (a) Importance in the course, or pattern, of Australia's natural or cultural history
• (b) Possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Australia's natural or cultural history
• (c) Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Australia's natural or cultural history
• (d) Importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of Australia's natural or cultural places or environments
• (e) Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics valued by a community or cultural group
• (f) Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period
• (g) Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons
• (h) Special association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons, of importance in Australia's natural or cultural history
• (i) 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.

List

The Australian National Heritage List comprises the following sites:

#	Image	Listed place	State	Date listed	Coordinates	Notes
1		Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout (listing)	South Australia	7 November 2008
2		Australian Academy of Science Building (listing)	Australian Capital Territory	21 November 2005
3	150px	Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Alpine National Park (listing)	Victoria	7 November 2008
		Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Avon Wilderness (listing)	Victoria
		Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Baw Baw National Park (listing)	Victoria
	150px	Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Bimberi Nature Reserve (listing)	New South Wales
		Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Brindabella National Park (listing)	New South Wales
	150px	Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Kosciuszko National Park (listing)	New South Wales
	150px	Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Mount Buffalo National Park (listing)	Victoria
		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
	150px	Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Snowy River National Park (listing)	Victoria
	150px	Australian Alps National Parks and Reserves – Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve (listing)	Australian Capital Territory
4	150px	Australian Convict Sites – Brickendon Estate (listing)	Tasmania	23 June 2007		World Heritage Site 2010
		Australian Convict Sites – Cascades Female Factory and Yard 4 North (listing)	Tasmania	1 August 2007
	150px	Australian Convict Sites – Coal Mines Historic Site (listing)	Tasmania	1 August 2007
	150px	Australian Convict Sites – Cockatoo Island (listing)	New South Wales	1 August 2007
	150px	Australian Convict Sites – Darlington Probation Station (listing)	Tasmania	1 August 2007
		Australian Convict Sites – Fremantle Prison (listing)	Western Australia	1 August 2005
	150px	Australian Convict Sites – Old Great North Road (listing)	New South Wales	1 August 2007
		Australian Convict Sites – Hyde Park Barracks (listing)	New South Wales	1 August 2007
		Australian Convict Sites – Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area (listing)	Norfolk Island	1 August 2007
		Australian Convict Sites – Old Government House and Government Domain (listing)	New South Wales	1 August 2007
		Australian Convict Sites – Port Arthur Historic site (listing)	Tasmania	3 June 2005
	150px	Australian Convict Sites – Woolmers Estate (listing)	Tasmania	23 November 2007
5		Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Naracoorte) (listing)	South Australia	21 May 2007		Inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1994
		Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh) (listing)	Queensland			World Heritage Site 1994
6		Australian War Memorial and the Memorial Parade (listing)	Australian Capital Territory	25 April 2006
7		Batavia Shipwreck Site and Survivor Camps Area 1629, Houtman Abrolhos (listing)	Western Australia	6 April 2006
8		Bondi Beach (listing)	New South Wales	25 January 2008
9	150px	Bonegilla Migrant Camp – Block 19 (listing)	Victoria	7 December 2007
10	150px	Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps (Baiames Ngunnhu) (listing)	New South Wales	3 June 2005
11	150px	City of Broken Hill (listing)	New South Wales	20 January 2015
12		Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape – Tyrendarra Area (listing)	Victoria	20 July 2004
	150px	Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape – Mount Eccles Lake Condah Area (listing)
13	150px	Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park (listing)	Victoria	27 January 2005
14		Cheetup Rock Shelter (listing)	Western Australia	23 October 2009	<!coord-->
15	150px	Coranderrk (listing)	Victoria	7 June 2011
16		Cyprus Hellene Club - Australian Hall (listing)	New South Wales	20 May 2008		Site of the Aboriginal Day of Mourning in 1938
17		Dampier Archipelago (listing)	Western Australia	3 July 2007
18	150px	Dirk Hartog Landing Site 1616 – Cape Inscription Area (listing)	Western Australia	6 April 2006
19	150px	Dinosaur Stampede National Monument (listing)	Queensland	20 July 2004
20		Echuca Wharf (listing)	Victoria	26 April 2007
21		Ediacara Fossil Site – Nilpena (listing)	South Australia	11 January 2007
22		Elizabeth Springs (listing)	Queensland	4 August 2009
23	150px	Eureka Stockade Gardens (listing)	Victoria	8 December 2004
24	150px	First Government House Site, Sydney (listing)	New South Wales	19 August 2005
25		Flemington Racecourse (listing)	Victoria	7 November 2006
26		Fraser Island (listing)	Queensland	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 1992
27	150px	Glass House Mountains National Landscape (listing)	Queensland	3 August 2006
28	150px	Glenrowan Heritage Precinct (listing)	Victoria	5 July 2005		Site of the Siege of Glenrowan and the capture of Ned Kelly
29		Goldfields Water Supply Scheme (listing)	Western Australia	23 June 2011
30		Gondwana Rainforests of Australia – Barrington Tops Area (listing)	New South Wales	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 1986
	150px	Gondwana Rainforests of Australia – Focal Peak Group (listing)	NSW, Qld
		Gondwana Rainforests of Australia – Hastings-Macleay Group (listing)	New South Wales
		Gondwana Rainforests of Australia – Iluka Nature Reserve (listing)	New South Wales
		Gondwana Rainforests of Australia – Main Range National Park (listing)	NSW, Qld
	150px	Gondwana Rainforests of Australia – New England Group (listing)	New South Wales
		Gondwana Rainforests of Australia – Shield Volcano Group (listing)	NSW, Qld
		Gondwana Rainforests of Australia – Washpool and Gibraltar Range (listing)	New South Wales
31		Grampians National Park (Gariwerd) (listing)	Victoria	15 December 2006
32		Great Barrier Reef (listing)	Queensland	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 1981
33	150px	Greater Blue Mountains Area (listing)	New South Wales	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 2000
34	150px	Great Ocean Road (listing)	Victoria	7 April 2011
35		HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran shipwreck sites (listing)	Western Australia	14 March 2011		The two ships lie 22 kilometres (14 mi) apart.
36	150px	HMVS Cerberus (listing)	Victoria	14 December 2005
37	150px	HMS Sirius (listing)	Norfolk Island	25 October 2011
38	150px	Heard and McDonald Islands (listing)	External territory	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 1997
39		Hermannsburg Historic Precinct (listing)	Northern Territory	13 April 2006
40		High Court of Australia (former) (listing)	Victoria	11 July 2007
41		High Court – National Gallery precinct (listing)	Australian Capital Territory	23 November 2007
42		ICI Building (listing)	Victoria	21 September 2005
43	150px	Jordan River Levee (listing)	Tasmania	23 December 2011		Archeological site on a tributary of the River Derwent
44	150px	Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Lion Island, Long Island and Spectacle Island Nature Reserves (listing)	New South Wales	15 December 2006
45		Kakadu National Park (listing)	Northern Territory	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 1981
46	150px	Kurnell Peninsula Headland (listing)	New South Wales	20 September 2004		James Cook's first landing site in Australia in 1770
47		Koonalda Cave (listing)	South Australia	15 October 2014
48		Lord Howe Island Group (listing)	New South Wales	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 1982
49		Macquarie Island (listing)	Tasmania	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 1997
50		Mawsons Huts and Mawsons Huts Historic site (listing)	Australian Antarctic Territory	27 January 2005
51		Melbourne Cricket Ground (listing)	Victoria	26 December 2005
52		Moree Baths and Swimming Pool Complex (listing)	New South Wales	6 September 2013
53		Mount William Stone Hatchet Quarry (listing)	Victoria	25 February 2008
54		Murtoa No. 1 Grain Shed (listing)	Victoria	1 October 2014
55		Myall Creek Massacre and Memorial Site (listing)	New South Wales	7 June 2008
56		Newman College (listing)	Victoria	21 September 2005
57	150px	The Ningaloo Coast (listing)	Western Australia	6 January 2010
58		Ngarrabullgan (listing)	Queensland	12 May 2011
59	150px	North Head, Sydney (listing)	New South Wales	12 May 2006
60		Old Parliament House and Curtilage (listing)	Australian Capital Territory	20 June 2006
61		Point Cook Air Base (listing)	Victoria	29 August 2007
62	150px	Point Nepean Defence Sites and Quarantine Station Area (listing)	Victoria	16 June 2006
63		Porongurup National Park (listing)	Western Australia	4 August 2009
64		Purnululu National Park (listing)	Western Australia	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 2003
65		QANTAS hangar, Longreach (listing)	Queensland	2 May 2009
66	150px	Recherche Bay (North East Peninsula) Area (listing)	Tasmania	7 October 2005
67	150px	Richmond Bridge (listing)	Tasmania	25 November 2005
68		Rippon Lea House and Gardens (listing)	Victoria	11 August 2006
69		Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens (listing)	Victoria	20 July 2004		World Heritage Site 2004
70		Royal National Park and Garawarra State Conservation Area (listing)	New South Wales	15 September 2006
71	150px	Shark Bay (listing)	Western Australia	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 1991
72		Sidney Myer Music Bowl (listing)	Victoria	21 September 2005
73		South Australia's Parliament House (listing)	South Australia	26 January 2006
74	150px	Stirling Range National Park (listing)	Western Australia	15 December 2006
75	150px	Sydney Harbour Bridge (listing)	New South Wales	19 March 2007
76		Sydney Opera House (listing)	New South Wales	12 July 2005		World Heritage Site 2007
77		Tasmanian Wilderness (listing)	Tasmania	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 1982
78	150px	Tree of Knowledge, Barcaldine (listing)	Queensland	26 January 2006		Poisoned in 2006 and felled in 2007
79		Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (listing)	Northern Territory	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 1987
80		Warrumbungle National Park (listing)	New South Wales	15 December 2006
81		Wave Hill walk-off route (listing)	Northern Territory	9 August 2007
82		Western Tasmania Aboriginal Cultural Landscape (listing)	Tasmania	8 February 2013
83		West Kimberley (listing)	Western Australia	31 August 2011
84	150px	Wet Tropics of Queensland (listing)	Queensland	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 1988
85		Wilgie Mia (listing)	Western Australia	24 February 2011
86		Willandra Lakes Region (listing)	New South Wales	21 May 2007		World Heritage Site 1981 Includes Lake Mungo
87	150px	Witjira-Dalhousie Springs (listing)	South Australia	4 August 2009
88		Wurrwurrwuy stone arrangements (listing)	Northern Territory	7 August 2013
89		Yea Flora Fossil Site (listing)	Victoria	11 January 2007

Notes

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

External links

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• Australian National Heritage List