The Dampier Archipelago (including the Burrup Peninsula)
National Heritage Assessment
Australian Heritage Council
The names of individual assessors and nominators have been removed for privacy reasons
National Heritage Assessment
The Australian Heritage Council (AHC) found the Dampier Archipelago (including the Burrup Peninsula) contains one of the richest concentrations of rock engravings and stone arrangements in Australia making it of outstanding national heritage significance. The area contains tens of thousands of engravings, with richly detailed images of water birds, crabs, crayfish, kangaroos, turtles and fish, and schematised human figures with both human and animal features. There is also an exceptionally high density of stone pits, complex circular arrangements, and standing stones ranging from single monoliths through to extensive alignments of three or four hundred stones.
Final assessment report
The Council's final assessment report as given to the Minister is available here.
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- AHC final assessment report: The Dampier Archipelago (including the Burrup Peninsula) (PDF - 168 KB) | (Word - 359 KB)
In some cases the Minister will have made amendments to such matters as boundaries, values and descriptions, before listing the place. The names of individual assessors and nominators have been removed for privacy reasons.
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Further assessment of the Outstanding Universal Value and any threats to the site
On 2 March 2011, in response to a motion in the Senate, Minister Burke, instructed the Australian Heritage Council to undertake an emergency assessment of the outstanding universal values of the Dampier Archipelago and any threats to the site.
The Australian Heritage Council has provided the Minister with its final report. Minister Burke has asked for this report to be made available to the public.
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Report of the assessment of the outstanding universal values of the Dampier Archipelago and any threats to the site.
- The Potential Outstanding Universal Value of the Dampier Archipelago Site and Threats to that Site (PDF - 3.2 MB) | (Word - 9.6 MB)
- Attachment A - Dampier Archipelago Risk Assessment Matrix (PDF - 32 KB) | (Word - 28 KB)
- Attachment B - National Heritage List boundary map (PDF - 965 MB)
- Attachment C - Gazette notice (PDF - 61 KB)
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