16. Australia Total number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: 20 Natural: 12, Cultural: 4, Mixed: 4 Great Barrier Reef (natural) Kakadu National Park (mixed) Willandra Lakes Region (mixed) Lord Howe Island Group (natural) Tasmanian Wilderness (mixed) Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (natural) Ul...
Shark Bay, Western Australia Fraser Island Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte) Heard and McDonald Islands Macquarie Island Greater Blue Mountains Area Purnululu National Park Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens Sydney Opera House Australian Convict Sites Ningaloo Coast Budj ...
Uluru, Australia Looming tall in Australia’s arid heart, Uluru is one of the most famous UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Australia. The massive sandstone formation towers 350 metres into the sky, one of the oldest known rocks on the planet at over 550 million years old. Seeing it change fr...
Top UNESCO World Heritage Sites List Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park(Uganda) Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (Canada) Central Amazon Conservation Complex (Brazil) Darién National Park (Panama) Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) Great Barrier Reef (Australia) Iguazú National Park (Argentina) Kenya Lake ...
Australia has 20 sites each. Number of UNESCO sites we’ve visited in the USA:8 of the 24 UNESCO sites Our favorite UNESCO sites in the USA:TheGrand Canyon and Yosemite UNESCO site we most want to visit in the USA:Glacier Bay National Park ...
Australia’s collection of 20 UNESCO World Heritage sites are some of the most extraordinary natural and cultural treasures on the planet – after all, a place has to be truly remarkable to make it onto UNESCO’s list. Our World Heritage wonders range from prehistoricrainforest wildernessand anc...
Shark Bay, Western Australia Fraser Island Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte) Heard Island and McDonald Islands Macquarie Island Greater Blue Mountains Area Purnululu National Park Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens Sydney Opera House Australian Convict Sites Kiribati Phoeni...
I visited the Ningaloo Reef in 2008 during my trip to Australia. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in June 2011. I visited Wadi Rum in 2009. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in June 2011. The Dresden Elbe Valley was removed from the UNESCO list in 2009 because of the constr...
sites located inTasmaniain the south. Around 166,000 men, women, and children were sent to Australia over 80 years between 1787 and 1868, condemned by British justice to transportation to the convict colonies. Each of the sites had a specific purpose, in terms both of punitive imprisonment ...
Note that tentative sites are not included in this list. Have you visited any of the Oceanian UNESCO sites then please leave a comment on this page. Australia Great Barrier Reef Kakadu National Park Willandra Lakes Region Lord Howe Island Group Tasmanian Wilderness Gondwana Rainforests of Australia...