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Location
  
Australia

Criteria
  
iv, vi

UNESCO region
  
Asia-Pacific

Type
  
Cultural

Reference
  
1306

Inscription
  
2010 (34th Session)

Australian Convict Sites

Australian Convict Sites is a World Heritage property consisting of 11 remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on fertile Australian coastal strips at Sydney, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, and Fremantle; now representing "...the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts."

Contents

These properties were all individually included on the Australian National Heritage List before inclusion on the World Heritage list.

Preparations began in 1995, and a World Heritage nomination was first made in January 2008. That attempt failed, and the nomination was subsequently reworked.

Penal sites included

The 11 penal sites constituting the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage listed property are

  • Cockatoo Island Convict Site (New South Wales)
  • Great North Road (New South Wales)
  • Hyde Park Barracks (New South Wales)
  • Old Government House (New South Wales)
  • Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area (Norfolk Island)
  • Brickendon and Woolmers Estates (Tasmania)
  • Cascades Female Factory (Tasmania)
  • Coal Mines Historic Site (Tasmania)
  • Darlington Probation Station (Tasmania)
  • Port Arthur (Tasmania)
  • Fremantle Prison (Western Australia)
  • Criteria for listing

    Out of over 3,000 convict sites remaining in Australia, the 11 constituting the Australian Convict Sites were selected as the pre-eminent examples of the world's convict era satisfying World Heritage selection criteria IV & VI, as follows:

    References

    Australian Convict Sites Wikipedia


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