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calcarenite, Kingston Swamp and
for its biology, including the marine areas.

Attributes

All buildings and other associated fabric that demonstrate European and pre European phases of
occupation, including fabric and artefacts associated with the wreck of the Sirius, archaeological evidence
dating from the initial settlement phase, fabric that demonstrates penal practice and the role of the military
and fabric associated with the Pitcairn Islanders. All of the buildings, structures, cemetery and landscape
noted above, plus the natural values of the petrified forest, calcarenite and Kingston Swamp.

Criterion B Rarity

KAVHA is significant for its rare association with pre-European, Polynesian settlement, there being no
other known pre-European Polynesian occupation sites in Australia. It demonstrates a rare occupation
sequence of Polynesian and European settlement in the west Pacific.

KAVHA is rare, being the site of, and probably containing extensive archaeological evidence of, the
earliest European settlement from Australia to the south-west Pacific (1788), similar in size for a decade to
the other initial settlement at Sydney Cove. Its significance is enhanced by the lack of substantial
subsequent development. It contains areas and individual elements that are confirmed or well
documented sites of First Settlement buildings and activities (1788-1814). The subsurface archaeological
remains of the first and second Government Houses (1788-1803) are, along with First Government House
Sydney (1788 - 1847), the oldest government house sites in Australia.

The area contains the Cemetery Bay Dune area which is unique to the island in its plant and remnant
lowland forest. Also associated with the dune area is the fossilliferous preservation of the island's past
biota, and a minute remnant land mollusc population.

Attributes

Evidence of Polynesian settlement, evidence and integrity of early European settlement, plus subsurface
archaeological remains of the first and second Government Houses plus natural values of Cemetery Bay
including plant and remnant lowland forest, fossilliferous preservation of the island's past biota and a
minute remnant land mollusc population.

Criterion C Research

KAVHA is significant for its archaeological research potential to contribute to a wider understanding of the
history of pre-European, Polynesian colonisation and occupation of Norfolk Island and the South Pacific. It
is significant for its archaeological research potential to contribute to a wider understanding of the history
of the First Settlement of Norfolk Island and Australia. It is significant for its archaeological research
potential to contribute to a wider understanding of the history of the Second Settlement of Norfolk Island.
This significance is enhanced by the lack of substantial subsequent development. KAVHA is also
significant for the features and research importance of its Third Settlement Period.

Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area—Heritage Management Plan, April 2016
Authorised Version F2016L01891 registered 09/12/2016

Jean Rice Architect | CONTEXT | GML Heritage

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