List of World Heritage Sites in Australia information
Great Barrier Reef
Kakadu
Willandra Lakes Region
Lord Howe Island
Tasmanian Wilderness
Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa
Sydney Opera House
Budj Bim
Royal Exhibition Building
Fremantle Prison
Naracoorte
Riversleigh
Wet Tropics
Ningaloo
Purnululu
Fraser Island
Shark Bay
Blue Mountains
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Location of World Heritage Sites in Australia. Red dots are cultural sites, blue dots are natural, and orange dots are mixed sites. Four convict sites are in the Sydney area and five are in Tasmania. The convict site at Norfolk Island, as well as the Lord Howe Island, Macquarie Island, and Heard and McDonald Islands are not shown on the map. The Gondwana Rainforests comprise 41 sites in eastern Australia and are also not shown individually.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972.[1] Cultural heritage consists of monuments (such as architectural works, monumental sculptures, or inscriptions), groups of buildings, and sites (including archaeological sites). Natural features (consisting of physical and biological formations), geological and physiographical formations (including habitats of threatened species of animals and plants), and natural sites which are important from the point of view of science, conservation, or natural beauty, are defined as natural heritage.[2] Australia accepted the convention on 22 August 1974.[3] There are 20 World Heritage Sites in Australia, with a further six on the tentative list.[3]
The first sites in Australia added to the list were the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu National Park, and Willandra Lakes Region, at the fifth session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Sydney, in 1981.[4] The most recent site listed was the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, in 2019.[3] Of these 20 sites, four are cultural, 12 are natural, and four are mixed, listed for both cultural and natural properties.[3] Australia has served as a member of the World Heritage Committee five times, in 1976–1983, 1983–1989, 1995–2001, 2007–2011, and 2017–2021.[3]
^"The World Heritage Convention". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from the original on 27 August 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
^"Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
^ abcde"Australia". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from the original on 29 August 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
^"Report of Rapporteur". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from the original on December 2, 2017. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
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