Australian Convict Sites
in Lower MacDonald, AustraliaCategory: Attraction
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Finches Line Walking Track, Lower MacDonald NSW 2775, Australia Print route »
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Australian Convict Sites is a World Heritage property consisting of 11 remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on fertile Australian coastal strips at Sydney, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, and Fremantle; now representing "...the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts."These properties were all individually included on the Australian National Heritage List before inclusion on the World Heritage list.
Preparations began in 1995, and a World Heritage nomination was first made in January 2008. That attempt failed, and the nomination was subsequently reworked.
