World Heritage Sites 30/06/2016

• Other Authors: Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Department of the Environment and Energy (isOwnedBy)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN)
• Subjects: heritage; heritage sites; world heritage; Queensland; Heard; McDonald Islands; Blue Mountains; Fraser Island; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/world-heritage-sites-30062016/2746881; http://data.aurin.org.au/dataset/001cd619-457d-4ca4-acbb-c3e0a65e3478

Spatial data of the boundaries of Australia's declared World Heritage properties as at 30/06/2016. \nThere are currently twenty (20) Australian properties on the World Heritage List (as of August 2011). The Great Barrier Reef, the Tasmanian Wilderness, the Wet Tropics of Queensland and Shark Bay meet all four World Heritage criteria for natural heritage, with Kakadu National Park, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Willandra Lakes Region and the Tasmanian Wilderness being listed for both natural and cultural criteria. The Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Naracoorte/Riversleigh), Lord Howe Island Group, Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, Fraser Island, Macquarie Island, Heard and McDonald Islands, the Greater Blue Mountains Area and Purnululu National Park are listed under the World Heritage criteria for natural heritage. The Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Melbourne were inscribed in the World Heritage List against Cultural criterion (ii): exhibit an important interchange of human values over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town planning or landscape design. The Sydney Opera House was inscribed in the World Heritage List in 2007 against Cultural criterion (i) (see [whc.unesco.org](http://whc.unesco.org/en/criteria).) The Australian Convict Sites were inscribed on the World Heritage List on 31 July 2010. There are 11 sites that make up the World Heritage Australian Convict Sites against Cultural criterion (iv) and (vi). The Ningaloo Coast was inscribed on the World Heritage List in June 2011 against Natural criteria (vii) and (x). \nA single Australian World Heritage Areas database has been created by combining data which was historically stored as a separate set of data for each property. The coastline of Queensland was produced under specific contract for Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) by the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG) in 1984. Originally engineered by AUSLIG from ...