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Heritage Lists
The National Heritage List is Australia’s list of Indigenous, natural and historic places of outstanding significance to the nation.
Using this search and filter page you can find heritage listed places throughout Australia. These are places that have been listed up to the present time.
Note: always refer to the Australian Heritage Database or the official details related to a place, including National Heritage place names, listed values.
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- National heritage
- Historic
- Victoria
For more than 100 years the Abbotsford Convent, provided shelter, food, education and work for tens of thousands of women and children who experienced poverty, neglect and social disadvantage.
- National heritage
- Historic
- South Australia
The Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout is widely regarded as a masterwork of urban design and signifies a turning point in the settlement of Australia. Adelaide was the first city in Australia to be planned and developed, not as a penal settlement…
- National heritage
- Historic
- Australian Capital Territory
Built in 1959, the futuristic copper dome of the Australian Academy of Science represents a milestone in the Australian construction industry. Designed by one of our most prominent architects, Sir Roy Grounds, the Shine Dome commemorates the…
- National heritage
- Natural
- Victoria
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
The Australian Alps contain the highest mountains on mainland Australia and feature diverse alpine and sub-alpine environments, significant fossils, cold adapted flora and fauna, and spectacular landscapes including…
- National heritage
- Historic
- South Australia
Cornish miners, engineers and tradespeople worked in the copper mines of South Australia from the mid-nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. The new colony of South Australia soon became known as the Copper Kingdom due to the importance of copper…
- National heritage
- Historic
- South Australia
Cornish miners, engineers and tradespeople worked in the copper mines of South Australia from the mid-nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. The new colony of South Australia soon became known as the Copper Kingdom due to the importance of copper…
- World heritage
- National heritage
- Natural
- South Australia
- Queensland
The Australian Fossil Mammal Site is a serial listing with sites at Naracoorte in South Australia and Riversleigh in Queensland. Among the world’s 10 greatest fossil sites they are a superb illustration of the key stages in the evolution of the…
- World heritage
- National heritage
- Natural
- Queensland
The Australian Fossil Mammal Site is a serial listing with sites at Naracoorte in South Australia and Riversleigh in Queensland. Among the world’s 10 greatest fossil sites they are a superb illustration of the key stages in the evolution of the…
- National heritage
- Historic
- Australian Capital Territory
Located at the heart of the nation’s capital, the Australian War Memorial and Anzac Parade are at the centre of the nation's tribute to the courage and sacrifice of generations of men and woman who served in war.
- National heritage
- Historic
- Western Australia
The shipwreck and bloody aftermath of the Dutch merchant vessel Batavia is a fascinating tale of maritime treachery, murder and heroism, unparalleled in Australian maritime history.