Australia and South Pacific Archives

Kakadu National Park

A vast and pristine natural landscape, important for its endemic species, geology, and ancient Aboriginal rock art.

3 locations in Vanuatu related to a 17th century chief, significant as part of the oral history of the country and its chiefly tradition.

A beautiful park of volcanoes, lakes and waterfalls, perfect for hiking.

An exhibition building and surrounding gardens representing the importance of the 19th-century’s international exhibition movement.

A unique island of sand dunes and rainforest.

An ancient site of great historical and cultural significance to indigenous Polynesians.

Beautiful and ancient rainforests that are home to a diversity of species.

A vast wilderness area of great natural beauty with mountains, fjords, sounds, rainforests, glaciers, and a range of fauna and flora.

A vast area of tropical rainforest, home to a huge diversity of plant and animal species.

A landmark of 20th-century architecture on Sydney Harbor.

An enormous biologically-diverse coral reef along Australia’s east coast.

Several nature reserves that are home to a huge diversity of flora, representing species important to the evolution of plant life.

An awe-inspiring rock formation that is sacred to the local indigenous people, and similar red-rock domes not far away.

Eleven separate locations that illustrate elements of the 19th-century British penal system of “transportation” to Australia.

A diverse group of nature reserves that are important for biological diversity and that serve as refuge to many species endemic to Australia.

A unique natural environment of dramatic landscapes and ecosystems representing evolutionary history.

A remote place of rugged beauty in its fringing reef and its arid mountains, gorges and canyons.

A very remote location with dramatic beehive rock formations.