Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park World Heritage Values
Natural Values
Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park was first listed in 1987 for two natural criteria:
- an outstanding example representing significant ongoing geological processes, biological evolution and man's interaction with his natural environment, and
- contains unique, rare or superlative natural phenomena, formations or features or areas of exceptional natural beauty, such as superlative examples of most important ecosystems to man, natural features, sweeping vistas covered by natural vegetation and exceptional combinations of natural or cultural elements.
Cultural Landscape
In 1994 Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park became the second property in the world to be listed as a cultural landscape. It was successfully nominated as a World Heritage property under this category because it is:
- a cultural landscape representing the combined work of nature and of man, manifesting the interaction between humankind and its natural environment, and
- an associative landscape having powerful religious, artistic and cultural associations of the natural element.