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with 96 species recorded. The density of individuals is also high, with up to 2,941 per square metre recorded. In a study of ten Posidonia beds in New South Wales, the beds in Jervis Bay generally ranked third in terms of species richness and fifth in terms of the numbers of individual animals per square metre (Collett et al. 1984). The waters of the Jervis Bay Territory include several deepwater Posidonia beds (NSW Fisheries 1994).

The place contains a large number of prehistoric Aboriginal sites. Rock shelters, stone-flaking sites and axe-sharpening grooves and shell middens demonstrate the length of Aboriginal occupation of the area. There is a concentration of Aboriginal middens towards the eastern end of Wreck Bay. The fish bones and fishing implements in the middens document changing fishing practices over the last 3,000 years (Booderee National Park Board of Management 2002).

The Wreck Bay Settlement demonstrates the way Koori people maintained their culture and developed an economic role following European settlement. It was established by Koori initiatives in the early 1900s. They favoured the area because of strong traditional and cultural ties, its closeness to both the bush and the sea for collection of food and other resources, and its distance from non-Aboriginal settlements (Booderee National Park Board of Management 2002).

Wreck Bay is one of the areas associated with the Aboriginal Land Rights movement in the 1970s and 1980s. It was the scene of protests and blockades to ensure that Wreck Bay remained an Aboriginal community (Booderee National Park Board of Management 2002).

Two flora species occur as outlier populations; Philotheca buxifolius subsp. Buxifolius is largely known from the Sydney area, and Leucopogon rodwayi occurs mainly on the northeast coast of New South Wales (Taws 1997).

The shrub Leptospermum epacridoideum is restricted to the Jervis Bay region (Taws 1997).

The marine environment of the Jervis Bay Territory includes a variety of habitats. The place includes high sea cliffs pockmarked with vertical gutters and sea caves, intertidal rock platforms, deepwater seagrass beds and sublittoral rocky reefs (West 1987; NSW Fisheries 1994).

Criterion: B

The place has significant heritage value because of the place's possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Australia's natural or cultural history

Values

The place includes several flora species of conservation significance. The nationally rare and vulnerable rainforest tree magenta lilly pilly (Syzygium paniculatum) is found in small rainforest pockets between Elmoos Road and St Georges Basin. The place also supports fifteen species that are rare in New South Wales (Taws 1997).

The marine environment of the Jervis Bay Territory includes a variety of habitats. The place includes high sea cliffs pockmarked with vertical gutters and sea caves, intertidal rock platforms, deepwater seagrass beds