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About National Heritage
Australia's national heritage comprises exceptional natural and cultural places contributing to Australia's national identity. It also encompasses places revealing the richness of Australia's extraordinarily diverse natural heritage. National heritage defines the critical moments in Australia's development as a nation.
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The National Heritage List
The National Heritage List signposts places of outstanding heritage significance. It includes natural, historic and Indigenous places of outstanding national heritage value to the Australian nation. The Full list of places on the National Heritage List is available on the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts website.
National Heritage Places in the Great Eastern Ranges
The Great Eastern Ranges contains the following places in the National Heritage List:
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1986 (extended in 1994) and was included in the National Heritage List on 21 May 2007.
The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia include the most extensive areas of subtropical rainforest in the world, large areas of warm temperate rainforest, and nearly all of the Antarctic beech cool temperate rainforest. Few places on earth contain so many plants and animals remaining relatively unchanged from their ancestors in the fossil record. More information about the National Heritage of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia is available on the DEWHA website.
Greater Blue Mountains Area
The Greater Blue Mountains Area was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2000 and was included in the National Heritage List on 21 May 2007. The unique plants and animals living here relate an extraordinary story of the evolution of Australia's unique Eucalypt vegetation and its associated communities, plants and animals. It is an area of breathtaking views, rugged tablelands, sheer cliffs, deep, inaccessible valleys and swamps. More information abou the National Heritage of the Greater Blue Mountains is available on the DEWHA website.
The Australian Alps National Parks
The Australian Alps, comprising 11 National Parks and Nature reserves, were included on the National Heritage List on 7 November 2008. The spectacular and distinctive Alps contain landforms created by glaciers, remarkable fish fossils and unique cold climate plants and animals. The Alps have a strong association with Australia's non-Indigenous pioneering history, while their snowfields and National Parks have long been popular recreation areas. More information about the National Heritage of The Australian Alps National Parks is available on the DEWHA website.
