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In Danger
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Cultural
18
Natural
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Mixed
Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1981 Great Barrier Reef AU N APA 34,870,000 154
1981 Kakadu National Park AU M APA 1,980,995 147
1981 Willandra Lakes Region AU M APA 240,000 167
1982 Lord Howe Island Group AU N APA 146,300 186
1982 Tasmanian Wilderness AU M APA 1,584,233 181
1986 Gondwana Rainforests of Australia 1 AU N APA 370,000 368
1987 Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park 2 AU M APA 132,566 447
1988 Wet Tropics of Queensland AU N APA 893,453 486
1990 Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand 3 NZ N APA 2,600,000 551
1991 Komodo National Park ID N APA 219,322 609
1991 Shark Bay, Western Australia AU N APA 2,200,902 578
1992 Angkor KH C APA 40,100 668
1992 K’gari (Fraser Island) AU N APA 181,851 630
1994 Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte) AU N APA 10,326 698
1995 Cultural Landscape of Sintra PT C EUR 946 723
1997 Heard and McDonald Islands AU N APA 658,903 577
1997 Macquarie Island AU N APA 557,280 629
1998 East Rennell SB N APA 37,000 854
1999 Lorentz National Park ID N APA 2,350,000 955
2000 Greater Blue Mountains Area AU N APA 1,032,649 917
2000 Kinabalu Park MY N APA 75,370 1012
2003 Purnululu National Park AU N APA 239,723 1094
2004 Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens AU C APA 26 1131
2006 Aapravasi Ghat MU C AFR 0 1227
2007 Sydney Opera House AU C APA 6 166
2010 Australian Convict Sites AU C APA 1,503 1306
2011 Ningaloo Coast AU N APA 705,015 1369
2013 Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs) TJ N APA 2,611,674 1252
2019 Budj Bim Cultural Landscape AU C APA 9,935 1577
2019 The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright US C EUR 26 1496
Notes

  1. Extension of the "Australian East Coast Temperate and Subtropical Rainforest Park".

    name changed 2007 from 'Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves (Australia)'

  2. Renomination of "Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park" under cultural criteria.

  3. The Westland and Mount Cook National Park and the Fiordland National Park, which were previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of the "Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand".

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Cultural Natural Mixed

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Cultural Natural Mixed

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