The Australian Convict Sites is a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed under the Cultural category in 2010. This UNESCO site is located in New South Wales, Australia. This property features 11 ruins of the penal sites that were built by the British Empire from the 18th-19th centuries along the...
Byline: EMMA YOUNG THE WORLD HERITAGE Convention was born in 1972, in the wake of a series of successful UNESCO campaigns to save irreplaceable treasures, including the Abu Simbel temples in Egypt, and Venice and its Lagoon in Italy. In 1978,12 sites we...
World Heritage Listing of Australian Natural Sites: Tourism Stimulus and Its Economic Valuedoi:10.1016/S0313-5926(02)50017-5Australia has 14 areas inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, on the basis of their globally outstanding natural and in some cases also cultural values. Many regard ...
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with plenty of activities for the entire family. Enjoy Queensland’s stunning tropical beaches and surf towns like Byron Bay. Visit theme parks in Gold Coast before heading to Cairns, the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest Unesco World Heritage site. Here you will go out...
Four railway sites have been inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. Three are in India and the fourth is in Austria. I was the UNESCO consultant who assessed two of the Indian applications and I have visited the other two. Based on these experiences, this paper will examine th...
Often called the “wonder of the world” and listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1981, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef on the planet! It extends over 2,300 km and has 900 islands and over 2,900 reefs!
Includes native tea tasting and a scenic guided walk to a number of significant sites including UNESCO World Heritage Listed Finch’s Line. For the full program visit australianheritagefestival.org.au. Follow us on Facebook: AustralianHeritageFestival. Twitter: @HeritageFestAus #AHF2023 #shared...
The Greater Blue Mountains Area was unanimously listed as a World Heritage Area by UNESCO on 29 November 2000, becoming the fourth area in New South Wales to be listed. The area totals roughly 10,000 square kilometres (3,900 sq mi), including the Blue Mountains, Kanangra-Boyd, Wollemi, ...
The rejection of demands by the government that the areas, already featured as World Heritage Areas by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), be placed on the UNESCO endangered list.PockleyPeterNature