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There are currently eighteen (18) Australian properties on the World Heritage List (as of Oct 2007). 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, Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves 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) Masterpiece of human creative genius. A 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. All data are GDA compliant and use the WGS84 spheroid and datum. The coastal boundary for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area is interim. This line is only INDICATIVE of mean low tide, as stated in the World Heritage inscription. An appropriate caveat must accompany this data when used for analysis or map production.
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65943
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- Earth Sciences
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2007-01-01T00:00:00
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Data were derived by both digital cadastre and by the former Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (now the National Mapping Division of Geoscience Australia) in 1996 under contract to the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage's World Heritage Unit. The quality of source data is variable. Individual lineage varies and known anomalies/omissions are described below: Australian Fossil Mammal Sites - Riversleigh The boundary was prepared by the Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) and approximately geocoded. There are some inconsistencies between the boundary of the World Heritage Area and that of Lawn Hill National Park in the north-east part. Lord Howe Island Group Work was undertaken to incorporate the 'box' that surrounds the islands and defines the World Heritage Area - Nov 1999. Shark Bay The data were originally captured in Microstation (.dgn) and converted to Arc/Info by National Mapping Division. Some fragmentation of the original data has occurred. The Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP) is well-defined. However, the low water mark is not clearly mapped. This accounts for ~7% of the area covered by the world heritage property and includes the Hinchinbrook Channel amongst others. Uluru-Kata-Tjuta NP boundaries were obtained from Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Service maps - 1999.
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[-55.3228, -10.4682, 72.2461, 159.3403]
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