List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Australia and Oceania

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This page lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the double continent of Australia and Oceania, sorted by state . More detailed representations with a brief description and pictures of the world heritage sites can be found in the linked overview articles on the world heritage of the individual states.

The number at the beginning of each line indicates the year the site was added to the World Heritage List.
Sites of the world cultural heritage are marked with " K ", sites of the world natural heritage with " N ", mixed sites with " K / N ".
World Heritage sites that UNESCO has classified as particularly endangered and entered on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger are also marked with an " R ".

Australia

Sydney Opera House

1981 - Great Barrier Reef (N)
1981 - Kakadu National Park (K / N)
1981 - Willandra Lake Region (K / N)
1982 - Tasmanian Wilderness (K / N)
1982 - Lord Howe Archipelago (N)
1986 - Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (N)
1987 - Uluṟu-Kata-Tjuṯa National Park (K / N) with Ayers Rock
1988 - Wet Tropics of Queensland (N)
1991 - Shark Bay (N)
1992 - Fraser Island (N)
1994 - Australian fossil sites in Riversleigh and Naracoorte (N)
1997 - Heard and McDonald Islands (N)
1997 - Macquarie Island (N)
2000 - Blue Mountains (N)
2003 - Purnululu National Park (N)
2004 - Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens (K) in Melbourne
2007 - Sydney Opera House (K)
2010 - Australian Convict Sites (K)
2011 - Ningaloo Reef (N)
2019 - Budj Bim Cultural Landscape (K)

Chile

Rapa Nui National Park

1995 - Rapa Nui National Park (K) on Easter Island

Fiji

2013 - Historic port city of Levuka (K)

France

New Caledonian Barrier Reef

2008 - New Caledonian Barrier Reef (N) in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia
2017 - Taputapuātea (K) in French Polynesia
2019 - French Southern Territories and Seas (N), such as: Crozet Islands , Kerguelen and Saint Paul and Amsterdam

Indonesia

1999 - Lorentz National Park (N) in Western New Guinea

Kiribati

Phoenix Islands

2010 - Phoenix Islands Marine Reserve (N)

Marshall Islands

2010 - Bikini Atoll (K)

Micronesia

2016 - Nan Madol (K, R )

New Zealand

Tongariro National Park

1990 - Te Wahipounamu National Park (N)
1990 - Tongariro National Park (C / N)
1998 - New Zealand (N) Sub-Antarctic Islands, such as: Antipode Islands , Auckland Islands , Bounty Islands Snare Islands , and Campbell Island

Palau

2012 - Southern lagoon of the Chelbacheb Islands (N / K)

Papua New Guinea

2008 - Historical agricultural landscape of Kuk (K)

Solomon Islands

1998 - Coral Atoll East Rennell (N, R )

Vanuatu

Rock paintings in Chief Roi Mata's Domain

2008 - Chief Roi Mata's Domain (K)

United States

( State of Hawaii )

1987 - Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (N)
2010 - Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (K / N)

United Kingdom

1988 - Henderson Island (N) from the Pitcairn Islands .

See also

For states from Australia and Oceania that do not yet have a World Heritage Site but have already submitted a tentative list , see:

Web links

UNESCO database with extensive descriptions of the individual sites ( English , French )