Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

The immense rock formation of Uluru and rock domes of Kata Tjuta are remarkable geological and landform features set on a sand plain. The park covers 1325Ｋｍ² of arid ecosystems and is located to the center of Australia. There are two main famous spot, Uluru and Kata Tjuta. In 1987, it was registered on UNESCO’s World Heritage list.

The first, Uluru is second large rock in the world and also called Ayers Rock. It is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area. So, they call it “Uluru” and it’s mean is “ snake of rock”.

On 19 July 1873, William Gosse who is explorer in Britain visited Uluru and he named it “Ayers Rock”. Ayers Rock is the namesake of Henlly Ayers who is governor of South Australia. Between 1918 and 1921, large adjoining areas of South Australia, Western Australia and Northern Territory were declared as Aboriginal reserves.

In 1920, part of Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park was declared an Aboriginal reserve by the Australian Government under the Aboriginals Ordinance. On 26 October 1985, the Australian government returned ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines with one of the conditions being that the Anangu nation would lease it back to the National Parks and Wildlife agency for 99 years. And it would be jointly managed.

The Uluru remains of many wall painting by Aborigine and it was drew spirit and locate of water.

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

The Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens

In 1 July 2004, the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens was registered on UNESCO’s World Heritage list. The locate is Melbourne in Victoria. The Royal Exhibition Building was built because it is to use at Melbourne exposition in 1880 and 1888. It called “The first building of European style” in Australia. And, this building took in a lot of architecture style that Romanesque, Renaissance, Byzantine and Italy by Joseph Reed who architect in Melbourne. The dome’s design was impacted by Filippo Brunelleschi who was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance 15th century cathedral in Florence. The great hall was the largest building in Australia when it was built and it is brick, set on a bluestone base. It has long central naves and stunted transept. There are four triumphal entrance porticoes, one on each side. The Royal Exhibition Building is the highest building in Melbourne at that time.

In 1880, the main exhibition hall stood with brick annexes to its east and west. There was also a series of temporary halls of timber and corrugated iron. In 1880, the brick annexes were used at the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition as machinery and the western annex was converted to accommodate the Parliament met in the State Parliament of Victoria while the newly formed Federal Parliament met in the State Parliament Building in 1901. But, the western annex was demolished during the 1960s.

In 1888, the window and door joinery was painted green. The interior color scheme of 1880 was replaced with a new scheme for the 1888 International Exhibition and interior was redecorated in the opening of the first Commonwealth Parliament of Australia in 1901. The decoration was under the control by John Ross Anderson who is known for the interior design of the ANZ’ Gothic’ Bank in Collins Street in Melbourne.

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Great Barrier Reef
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Great Barrier Reef
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Great Barrier Reef
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Macquarie Island
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Purnululu National Park
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Mix Heritage

Australia has 4 mix heritages which Willandra Lakes Region, Tasmania Wilderness,Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and Kakadu National Park. Heritage include element of cultural and natural heritage. So, I selected three heritages in Mix Heritage.

Purnululu National Park

The Purnululu National list in 2003. Its location is Northeast of Parth in Australia. There is a rare rock which people call Bungle Bungle. It’s meaning is sandstone of Indigenous Australian Languages(Aboriginal Language).

Macquarie Island is desert Island of Australia. The location is Southwest to Tasmania Island. So, this island is near New Zealand and the span of Island is 34Km, width is 5Km. So, this island is very long and small. It is always blowing hard. For that reason, there isn’t plant but the meadow stretches as far as we can see. Macquarie Island is breeding ground for a lot of Penguins and come to Seal. Now, we can’t enter in this Island because there is an area closed to tourist by low of Australia. For that reason that staff work to conservation of nature. This Island was registered on UNESCO’s National Heritage list in 1997. So, reason of register is we can know history of diastrophism in earth and we can see change of geology.

The Great Barrier Reef was one of Australia’s first World Heritage Areas. The location is the coast of Queensland in North of Australia. And, it is the biggest coral reef area in the world. The length of Great Barrier Reef is about 2300Km long. It is also made up of nearly 3000 coral reefs and over 600 islands. In 1770, captain James Cook who explorer of Britain found this coral reef.
A lot of animals, fishes and shelf of coral are living in there, with 400 types of coral, 1500 types of fishes, 240 types of bards and 4000 type of mollusk. And, dugong, a red turtle and humpback whale of threatened with extinction live in there. However, shelf of coral is reducing because impact of global warming.
The scene of “Finding Nemo” which Disney Pixar animated movie is on a Great Barrier Reef. So, it is probably the most know marine protected area. In 1981, The Great Barrier Reef was registered on UNESCO’s National Heritage and meets all four natural world heritage criteria. It’s represents major stages of the earth’s evolutionary history, an outstanding example of ongoing ecological processes, contains superlative natural phenomena and contains important natural habitats for conservation of biological diversity.
The Reef is very important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people because Aboriginal people have a close relationship with the reef, maintaining strong cultural links with the area.

Natural Heritage

Australia has 11 natural heritages and it is the most of the number that was registered by UNESCO’s natural Heritage list on Asia and Oceania. Australia’s natural heritages are Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Fraser Island, Gondwana Rainforests of Heard and McDonald Island, Load Howe Island Group, Macquarie Island, Purnululu National Park, Shark Bay, Western Australia and Wet Tropics of Queensland.
So, I selected natural heritages that I think famous place. I wrote about Great Barrier Reef, Purnululu National park and Macquarie Island.