Australian Convict Sites

* This name is listed on the World Heritage List. ª The region is classified by UNESCO.

Eleven Australian Convict Sites ( German: listed convict sites in Australia ) have been entered on August 2, 2010 in the list of UNESCO World Heritage. These heritage sites, objects, and a road that emerged from the 18th to the 19th century, when Australia was a penal colony. The eleven historic sites were selected to represent the living and working conditions of the convicts, but they also show what services rendered the prisoners or to which they were forced.

Of these five world heritage sites located in Tasmania, four in New South Wales and one place in Western Australia and on Norfolk Iceland. These include examples of working and living conditions of prisoners in convict camps and prisons, the construction of a road and a government building, work and life are in a coal mine and on a farm. There are more than 3,000 locations, which go back to the people in the penal colony in Australia.

Through the selection and presentation is also to be shown how a change in the treatment of prisoners of is rigid compulsion to work, kasernierter accommodation and discipline, work for the general public and work for private business enterprises took to the more liberal treatment and housing, the Governor Lachlan Macquarie initiated.

Selected were eleven places that best reflect the prevailing conditions:

  • Cockatoo Iceland, New South Wales, convict camp
  • Great North Road, New South Wales, construction of a road
  • Hyde Park Barracks, New South Wales, convict buildings
  • Old Government House in Parramatta, New South Wales, construction of a government building
  • Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area, Norfolk Iceland, convict camp
  • Brickendon and Woolmers Estates, Tasmania, convict accommodation and work on a farm
  • Cascades Female Factory ( Tasmania ), Women's convict camp
  • Coal Mines Historic Site, Tasmania, coal mine
  • Darlington Probation Station, Tasmania, convict camp
  • Port Arthur, Tasmania, convict camp
  • Fremantle Prison, Western Australia, prison

The Australian Convict Sites are also registered in the Australian National Heritage List.

Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney Cockatoo Island (New South Wales) Great North Road (New South Wales) Old Government House, Parramatta Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area Blue Mountains (New South Wales) Carlton Gardens Tasmanian Wilderness Riversleigh Naracoorte-Caves-Nationalpark Kakadu-Nationalpark Ningaloo Reef Royal Exhibition Building Shark Bay
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