Australia’s World Heritage
The Shark Bay World Heritage Area is one of 19 Australian properties on the World Heritage List. Each represents an incredible diversity of features and values that represent the best of Australia’s natural and cultural heritage and are of outstanding universal significance. Australia’s World Heritage properties are:
- Great Barrier Reef inscribed 1981 for its natural values
- Kakadu National Park inscribed 1981 for its natural and cultural values
- Willandra Lakes Region inscribed 1981 for its natural and cultural values
- Lord Howe Island Group inscribed 1982 for their natural values
- Tasmanian Wilderness inscribed 1982 for its natural and cultural values
- Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves inscribed 1986 for their natural values
- Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park inscribed 1987 for its natural and cultural values
- Wet Tropics of Queensland inscribed 1988 for their natural values
- Shark Bay inscribed 1991 for its natural values
- Fraser Island inscribed 1992 for its natural values
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites Riversleigh, Naracoorte inscribed 1994 for their natural values
- Heard and McDonald Islands inscribed 1997 for their natural values
- Macquarie Island inscribed 1997 for its natural values
- Blue Mountains inscribed 2000 for their natural values
- Purnululu National Park inscribed 2003 for its natural values
- Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens inscribed 2004 for its cultural values
- Sydney Opera House inscribed 2007 for its cultural values
- Australian Convict Sites inscribed 2010 for cultural values
- Ningaloo Reef inscribed 2011 for its natural values