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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

KAVHA is significant for its research potential to contribute to a wider understanding of the history and
development of industrial processes, technology, architecture and engineering, particularly at the
crankmill, the salt house, lime kilns and mills, the landing pier and jetty and bridges.

KAVHA is significant as a place of integrated research, in which the place with its individual building and
archaeological elements, the landscape, archives, artefacts, Pitcairn language, ongoing traditions and
anthropological research potential provide an unparalleled resource. It is a microcosm of society. KAVHA
is significant for its potential to demonstrate ongoing conservation and restoration techniques.

KAVHA is significant for its research potential to contribute to knowledge about previous life forms,
including an extinct mollusc.

Attributes

All of the subsurface stratigraphy, artefacts and remains that may relate to the Polynesian, First
Settlement and Second settlement occupation phases. Also, all of the fabric associated with the crankmill,
the salt house, lime kilns and mills, the landing pier, jetty and bridges, plus cultural landscape features,
archives, artefacts, Pitcairn language, ongoing traditions and conservation and restoration techniques.
Also, previous life forms including an extinct mollusc used for research.

Criterion D Characteristic values

KAVHA is a monument to the convict origins of European settlement in Australia, comprising a large group
of buildings from the convict era, some modified during the Pitcairn period, substantial ruins and standing
structures, archaeological sub-surface remains, landform and cultural landscape elements, which
represent an outstanding example of the development of global convict transportation.

The landscape demonstrates the way and pattern in which the land has been cleared, utilised, developed
and the way of life of the inhabitants since European settlement in 1788. It demonstrates the impact of that
settlement on a natural environment hitherto occupied by Polynesian peoples, possibly intermittently.

KAVHA is the primary site of the Second Settlement period (1825-55) and contains the landform, layout,
extensive buildings, standing structures, archaeological remains and remnant landscape features of that
period and continuing uses. Its significance is enhanced by the lack of substantial subsequent
development, making the design features of the settlement very obvious. It is an outstanding rare example
of a place of secondary punishment for nineteenth century British convicts in the world and demonstrates
the extreme example of the severity of the transportation system. KAVHA demonstrates the range of
activities and structures associated with a secondary punishment penal settlement. It is an outstanding
example of different aspects of convict control and its use as a deterrent to crime in