World Heritage in Australia

The world heritage in Australia (as of 2019) includes 20 UNESCO world heritage sites , including four world cultural heritage sites, twelve world natural heritage sites and four mixed cultural and natural heritage sites. Australia ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1974, and the first World Heritage site was added to the World Heritage List in 1981. The last World Heritage site to date was registered in 2019.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Australia in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion on the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).

 Map with all coordinates of World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
(more pictures)	Kakadu National Park ( location )	1981	K / N	147	National Park 171 kilometers east of the city of Darwin in the Northern Territory ; contains one of the most beautiful and extensive collections of rock art in the world, protects the entire catchment area of ​​the South Alligator River and is home to examples of all habitat types of the top end of Australia.
(more pictures)	Great Barrier Reef ( location )	1981	N	154	Largest coral reef on earth with 359 species of hard corals, over 1,500 species of fish, 1,500 species of sponges, 5,000 species of molluscs, 800 species of echinoderms, 500 different species of seaweed and 215 species of birds
(more pictures)	Willandra Lake District ( Lage )	1981	K / N	167	Fossil lake area originating from the Tertiary, consisting of marine sediments of lime sand, marl and limestone. Today's sand formations in this area can be traced back to the Pleistocene. The climatic effects of the change between ice ages and warm periods on the non-iced areas of the earth can be traced back a long way. Human settlement was archaeologically proven for the area more than 40,000 years ago.
	Tasmanian wilderness	1982	K / N	181	Covers about 20 percent of the area of Tasmania and is home to one of the last temperate rainforests on earth. The following national parks are located in the World Heritage area: Cradle Mountain Lake St. Clair National Park , Franklin Gordon Wild Rivers National Park , Southwest National Park , Walls of Jerusalem National Park , Hartz Mountains National Park , Mole -Creek Karst National Park .
	Lord Howe Archipelago	1982	N	186	ppe, about 630 km off the east coast of the Australian state of New South Wales .
	Gondwana rainforests of Australia	1986	N	368	Several protected areas in the border area of ​​the two East Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland , in which there are shield volcanoes and a large number of rare and threatened species of the rainforest.
	Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park	1987	K / N	447	Part of the park is the famous island mountain Uluṟu (Ayers Rock) and the 40 km west located rock formation Kata Tjuṯa (Mount Olga).
	Wet Tropics in Queensland	1988	N	486	Natural region in northeast Australia on the coast of the Great Barrier Reef . The area mainly includes tropical rainforests. Despite their spatial limitation, the Wet Tropics are one of the areas in Australia with the highest biodiversity.
	Shark Bay, Western Australia	1991	N	578	Bay on the west coast of Australia about 800 kilometers north of Perth . In the Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve in the south of the bay there are microbes that form stromatolites , similar to the oldest known life forms on earth.
	Fraser Island	1992	N	630	Largest sand island in the world with a multitude of habitats such as mangrove swamps , bushland and eucalyptus forests with a correspondingly rich flora and fauna.
	Australian Mammal Fossil Storage Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte)	1994	N	698	In Riversleigh and Naracoorte are important sites for fossils of mammals of the Oligocene and Miocene
	Heard and McDonald Islands	1997	N	577	Australian nature reserve in the southern Indian Ocean , home to seals and birds, including one of seven king penguin breeding areas. There are no alien species on the islands.
	Macquarie Island	1997	N	629	Island in the southern Pacific Ocean belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania . Highest ridge of the submerged Macquarie Ridge, which was created when the Australian and Pacific plates meet . Sub-Antarctic fur seals and an abundance of bird life can be found on the island, including the endemic Macquarie Shark (Phalacrocorax purpurascens) and the eyebrow duck.
	Area of ​​the Greater Blue Mountains	2000	N	917	Mountain range in the Australian state of New South Wales , great biodiversity of eucalyptus trees. Includes seven national parks.
	Purnululu National Park	2003	N	1094	Worldwide unique, beehive-like sandstone mountain range ( Bungle Bungle ) and extremely narrow rock gorges in the sandstone plateau with palm oases.
	Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens	2004	K	1131	The Carlton Gardens in Melbourne and the Royal Exhibition Building inside are a typical example of the international exhibition movement from 1851 to 1915.
	Sydney Opera House	2007	K	166	The Sydney Opera House is one of the most distinctive buildings of the 20th century. The building was designed by the Dane Jørn Utzon . Planning for the building began at the end of the 1940s, and construction began in 1959. On October 20, 1973, the building was opened to the public by Queen Elizabeth II .
	Australian prison camps	2010	K	1306	Eleven Australian Convict Sites are on UNESCO's list. These are the following sites: Cockatoo Island , Great North Road , Hyde Park Barracks , Old Government House in Parramatta , Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area , Brickendon and Woolmers Estates , Cascades Female Factory , Coal Mines Historic Site , Darlington Probation Station , Port Arthur and Fremantle Prison .
	Ningaloo coast	2011	N	1369	Coastal strip with over 250 km long coral reef on the west coast of Australia
	Budj Bim cultural landscape	2019	K	1577

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list . As of 2020, three sites are entered in the tentative list of Australia, the last entry was made in 2020. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.

 Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Great-Sandy World Heritage Area	2010	N	5480	Planned expansion of the Fraser Island World Heritage Site to include Cooloola National Park , Breaksea Spit , Platypus Bay , Great Sandy Strait / Tin Can Bay Ramsar Area and the Wide Bay Military Reserve
	Gondwana rainforests of Australia	2010	N	5541	Expansion of the existing world heritage site by 689,364 hectares, including a. the Bunya Mountains National Park
	Murujuga cultural landscape ( location )	2020	C.	6445	Largest collection of Aboriginal rock art

Web links

Commons : World Heritage Sites in Australia  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Australia on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 29, 2017 . 
2. ↑ German names according to the World Heritage List. In: www.unesco.de. German UNESCO Commission, accessed on September 20, 2018 . 
3. ^ Tentative list of Australia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 29, 2017 . 

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap