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World Heritage Sites in Australia

Inscribed according to the world heritage committee there are 17 world heritage sites in Australia inscribed by the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations. The heritage sites of Australia include the World Heritage-listed Melbourne Royal Exhibition Building and the Sydney Opera House. Chronologically listed by year of inscription, Australia's World Heritage sites are listed below in consequence:

Heard Island and McDonald Islands: These islands include the Australian territory of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands. These islands have been designated as world heritage site.All these islands are above 40000 kilometers southwest of

Australia located in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean. Until the 19th century these islands were known to men. It includes the islands like the McDonald Island and Heard Island. The territory of these islands has been administered from the Canberra by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of the Environment and Heritage.

Macquarie Island: The Macquarie Island is a sub Antarctic island located in the southern ocean at an altitude of 54° 30' south, 158° 57' east. The island is the part of the state of Tasmania and lies 1500 kilometers southeast of the island of Tasmania and some kilometers north of the Antractic continent. It is a Tasmanian State Reserve managed by the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service. The entire island is covered by tussock grass and other plants. There are no trees.

Tasmanian Wilderness: The Tasmanian Wilderness with an area above 1 million hectares and comprising a fifth of the island state of the Tasmania the island comes under one of the world heritage sites. The place is famous as place of peaks, gorges, rivers, caves, endemic flora, rare and endangered fauna and many other natural gifts.

Naracoorte: The Naracoorte also comes under one of the world heritage sites in Australia. The island is located close to the border of Victoria in the southeast corner of South Australia. The caves of Naracoorte is part of the world heritage site it includes non-contiguous Australian fossil mammal sites.

Riversleigh: The Riversleigh located in Queensland is also a world heritage site. The island comprise fossils that were discovered at Riversleigh include bones and teeth of extinct prehistoric animals such as huge marsupials, flightless birds and tiny bats. The place was inscribed as world heritage site. Coming to this place you can explore the On-site viewing, Fossils centre and various other attractions. Willandra Lakes Region: Willandra Lakes Region is another world heritage site. The place is famous for having system of lakes in the Pleistocene Epoch during the last Ice Age and in the present times there are dry lake beds with bushes and grasses.

Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves: The Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia is located along the great Escarpment on Australia's east coast containing some of the outstanding geological features all around the shield volcanic craters, and also a good number of rare and endangered rainforest species.

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