Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
INCLUSION OF A PLACE IN THE NATIONAL HERITAGE LIST
WURRWURRWUY
I, Mark Butler, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Water, having considered in relation to the place described in the Schedule of this instrument:
(a) the Australian Heritage Council’s assessment whether the place meets any of the National Heritage criteria; and
(b) the comments given to the Council under sections 324JG and 324JH of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999; and
being satisfied that the place described in the Schedule has the National Heritage value specified in the Schedule, pursuant to section 324JJ of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, include the place and its National Heritage value in the National Heritage List.
Dated: 31/07/2013
[signed by]
Mark Butler
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Water
NORTHERN TERRITORY
Unicorporated NT
Wurrwurrwuy:
About 1.41ha, 10km south east of Yirrkala, being those parts of Northern Territory Portions 1044 and 1692 designated Northern Territory Portion 6647(A) and enclosed by a fence line located on a series of straight lines connecting in succession the Map Grid of Australia Zone 53 coordinates listed hereunder:
Easting (metres) Northing (metres)
1. 710097 8636036
2. 710131 8636024
3. 710181 8636007
4. 710223 8636049
5. 710262 8636086
6. 710226 8636124
7. 710186 8636159
8. 710145 8636123
9. 710105 8636083
10. 710102 8636042
1 710097 8636036
| Criterion | Values | |
| (b) | the place has outstanding heritage value to the nation because of the place's possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Australia's natural or cultural history. | The stone pictures at Wurrwurrwuy have outstanding heritage value to the nation as a rare example of stones arranged to depict utilitarian and secular objects rather than the arranged stones being associated with ceremony and the sacred. It is also a place with rare depictions of the internal arrangements in praus. This is knowledge that the creators would have acquired either during visits to or voyages on such vessels. |
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For more information on the place search the Australian Heritage Database at http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl using the name of the place.