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Character Range: 182391–185437

its fabric, setting, use, associations, meanings, records, related places and related objects. Places may have a range of values for different individuals or groups.

  Fabric means all the physical material of the place including components, fixtures, contents, and objects.

  Interpretation means all the ways of presenting the cultural significance of a place.

  Maintenance means the continuous protective care of the fabric and setting of a place, and is to be distinguished from repair. Repair involves restoration or reconstruction and should be treated accordingly.

  Meanings denote what a place signifies, indicates, evokes or expresses.

  Place means site, area, land, landscape, building or other work, group of buildings or other works, and may include components, contents, spaces and views.

  Preservation means maintaining the fabric of a place in its existing state and retarding deterioration.

  Reconstruction means returning a place to a known earlier state and is distinguished from restoration by the introduction of new material into the fabric.

  Related place means a place that contributes to the cultural significance of another place.

  Related object means an object that contributes to the cultural significance of a place but is not at the place.

  Restoration means returning the existing fabric of a place to a known earlier state by removing accretions or by reassembling existing components without the introduction of new material.

  Setting means the area around a place, which may include the visual catchment.

  Use means the functions of a place, as well as the activities and practices that may occur at the place.

10.3. Entry in the Commonwealth Heritage List, with recommended corrections
The following excerpt from the Australian Heritage Database is marked to show suggested revisions based on the findings of this heritage management study. The original text was retrieved from the website on 5 July 2012 <http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=105369> and is shown in italic type. Recommended additions to the text are shown in bold italic type, and text to be removed is shown struck out.

Summary Statement of Significance

Dent Island Lighthouse, constructed in 1879, is significant as a light tower built in response to, and to further encourage, the dramatic expansion of regular coastal shipping along the inner route of the Great Barrier Reef, following the economic development of Northern Queensland (Criterion A.4). The Lighthouse is significant as a an intact representative example of a timber-framed, iron clad tower (Type B), an adaptation by the Queensland Government of the imported prefabricated type using components from the United Kingdom an innovative structural system designed in the office of the Queensland Colonial Architect and typical of Queensland lighthouses of the time (Criterion D.2). Dent Island Lighthouse is important as one of a pair of identical lighthouse towers in the Whitsunday Passage built at