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Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area

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Type
  
Historic Area

Criteria
  
iv, vi

Type
  
Cultural

Area
  
255 ha

Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Location
  
Quality Row, Kingston, southern side of Norfolk Island

Status
  
Australian National Heritage List World Heritage list

Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area is an old settlement on the Kingston coastal plains (bounded by hills), southern side of Norfolk Island, consisting of a large group of buildings from the British Empire's convict era (1788–1855), now considered to be of such cultural significance to Australia and to the World that the area has been formally inscribed onto both the Australian National Heritage List and UNESCO's World Heritage list as amongst:

" .. the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts."

References

Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area Wikipedia