The Australian Heritage Database: Place Details of Seringapatam Reef and Surrounds, Timor Sea

Spatial data of the boundaries of listed places on the National Heritage List as at 30/06/2016.For more information use the following link: Australian Government Data Portal.

These data provide locational and attribute information for places nominated to and included in the National Heritage List as determined by the Australian Government managed by the Department of the Environment, Wildlife Division. National Heritage List polygons with attribute information describing the place name, class (indigenous, natural, historic), and status. Places subject to confidentiality agreements are included in these data but the location is generalised to the bounding 250k mapsheet. The location data for place nominations that have been rejected, are ineligible, removed or destroyed are not included in the publicly downloadable spatial dataset.

These data provide locational and attribute information for places on the Commonwealth Heritage List as determined by the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Heritage Branch. Data consist of Commonwealth Heritage List polygons with attribute information describing the place name, class (indigenous, natural, historic), and status. Places subject to confidentiality agreements are not included in these data. The location data for place nominations that are under internal assessment, have been rejected, are ineligible, removed or destroyed are not included in the publicly downloadable spatial dataset.

The Victorian Heritage Database is a fully searchable database containing information about Victorian Heritage Places and Precincts, including statements of significance, physical descriptions, historical information, builder, architectural style, photographs and heritage overlay number.

This data set contains places within Western Australia that have been reported to the Registrar of Aboriginal Sites as possible Aboriginal sites within the meaning of Section 5 of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. This includes: Registered Sites: Places assessed as meeting Section 5 of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. Lodged: Information received in relation to a place, but an assessment was not completed to determine if it met section 5 of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. Stored Data/Not a Site: Places assessed as not meeting Section 5 of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. #### PLEASE NOTE #### As part of the rollout of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021, this dataset will be replaced with a collection of new datasets in the near future. In the meantime, this dataset will remain as a static snapshot of the existing data as of 30 June 2023 This dataset has been retired and replaced by Aboriginal Cultural Heritage - Historic (DPLH-098), Aboriginal Cultural Heritage - Register (DPLH-099), and Aboriginal Cultural Heritage - Lodged (DPLH-100). For spatial information related to Aboriginal Heritage Places, please consult Department’s map viewer https://www.wa.gov.au/government/document-collections/search-aboriginal-cultural-heritage-places-wa

These data provide locational and attribute information for places on the Commonwealth Heritage List as determined by the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Heritage Branch. Data consist of Commonwealth Heritage List polygons with attribute information describing the place name, class (indigenous, natural, historic), and status. Places subject to confidentiality agreements are not included in these data. The location data for place nominations that are under internal assessment, have been rejected, are ineligible, removed or destroyed are not included in the publicly downloadable spatial dataset.

There are currently nineteen (19) Australian properties inscribed on the World Heritage List. A single Australian World Heritage Areas database has been created by combining data which was historically stored as a separate data for each property. World Heritage Area buffer zones are also included in this dataset where they exist for some properties and are distinguished from the Declared Property boundary in the data. Four properties (Kakadu National Park, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Willandra Lakes Region and the Tasmanian Wilderness) are inscribed for both natural and cultural criteria. The Great Barrier Reef, the Tasmanian Wilderness, the Wet Tropics of Queensland and Shark Bay meet all four World Heritage criteria for natural heritage (see http://whc.unesco.org/en/criteria or http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/about/world/world-heritage-criteria). 16 properties are listed under the World Heritage criteria for natural heritage: the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Naracoorte/Riversleigh), Lord Howe Island Group, Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, Fraser Island, Macquarie Island, Heard and McDonald Islands, the Greater Blue Mountains Area and Purnululu National Park, Shark Bay and the Ningaloo Coast. 7 properties are inscribed for cultural values: Kakadu National Park, Tasmanian Wilderness, Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park, Willandra Lakes Region, Australian Convict Sites, Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens and the Sydney Opera House. 3 properties are considered serial listing where the properties comprise more than one distinct geographical areas. There are 11 sites that constitute the Australian Convict Sites. The Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Naracoorte/Riversleigh) and the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia comprise multiple parts.