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related to convict administration includes the prisoners'
barracks, hospital, mess hall, military guard and officers' room, free overseers'

quarters and the superintendent's cottage. Evidence of convict hard labour
includes the sandstone buildings, quarried cliffs, the underground silos and the

Fitzroy Dock.

Cockatoo Island's dockyard, through its contribution to Australia's naval and
maritime history, demonstrates outstanding significance to the nation. Fitzroy
Dock is the oldest surviving dry dock in Australia operating continuously for
over 134 years (1857-1991). The dockyard has direct associations with the
convict era, Australia's naval relationship with its allies (particularly Britain
during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) and Australia's naval
development, especially during the First and Second World Wars. Cockatoo
Island's development into Australia's primary shipbuilding facility and
Australia's first Naval Dockyard for the RAN (1913-21) further demonstrates its

outstanding importance in the course of Australia's history.

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Jean Rice Architect | CONTEXT | GML Heritage

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette Special Gazette 5
No. S141, 1 August 2007

Criterion

()

(d)

The place has
outstanding heritage
value to the nation
because of the
place's potential to
yield information
that will contribute
to an understanding
of Australia's natural
or cultural history.

the place has
outstanding heritage
value to the nation
because of the
place's importance in
demonstrating the
principal
characteristics of: (2)
a class of Australia's
natural or cultural
places; or (ii) a class
of Australia's natural
or cultural
environments.

Values

There has been considerable archaeological investigation on Cockatoo Island
by the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. This has indicated that it has
significant research potential in terms of enhancing the knowledge of the
operation of a convict industrial site and a long running dockyard.

The surviving archaeological elements of now demolished or obscured
structures and functions of the dockyard, in particular the remains of docks,
equipment, warehouse and industrial buildings and a range of cranes, wharves,
slipways and jetties, have potential to illustrate and reveal the materials,
construction techniques and technical skills employed in the construction of
shipbuilding and dockyard facilities that are no longer available through other
sources in Australia. The archaeological resources also have importance in
demonstrating changes to maritime and heavy industrial processes and activities
in Australia from the mid-nineteenth century.

The dockyard contains the earliest, most extensive and most varied record of
shipbuilding, both commercial and naval, in Australia. This is supported by
extensive documentary evidence in the National Archives.

Cockatoo Island represents some of the principal characteristics of Australian
convict sites including: hard labour as a means of punishment and deterrence to
the British 'criminal class'; use of convict labour for the establishment of the
colony through public works; and secondary punishment for re-offending