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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. The settlement, the graveyard and other Aboriginal graves on the peninsula are highly significant to the Wreck Bay Community. 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.

Historic sites and places within the Jervis Bay Territory (part) with identified and assessed national estate values, and which are individually significant, include Cape St George Lighthouse & Curtilage (1859) (RNE File No. 8/02/002/0002), HMAS Creswell (1913) the Commonwealth Naval College (RNE File No. 8/02/0002/0001), and Christian's Minde (1896) (RNE File No. 8/02/0002/0003) the first guest house on the south coast between Port Hacking and Twofold Bay. The whole of the Jervis Bay Territory is important for its association with the establishment of a Royal Australian Naval College, which lead to the selection of Jervis Bay in 1911and the development of the Annexe to the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra. In 1951 a frost free annexe to the Canberra Botanic Gardens was developed on a site at Lake Mackenzie (Register File No. 8/02/002/0006). (Australian Historic Themes: 3.22 Lodging people, 3.23 catering for tourists, 3.08.01 Shipping to and from Australian ports, 3.08.02 Safeguarding Australian products for long journeys, 7.07 Defending Australia, 7.07.01 Providing for the common defence, 8.03 Going on holiday, 9.07.03 Remembering the dead)

The grave of Harriet Parker at Green Patch, associated with Cape St George Lighthouse, and the Ellmoos family private cemetery, also at Christian's Minde, are considered to have national estate values by virtue of their associations. However, not all sites of historic cultural heritage significance within the area of Jervis Bay Territory have been fully identified or assessed.

Commonwealth Heritage official values

Criterion: A

The place has significant heritage value because of the place's importance in the course, or pattern, of Australia's natural or cultural history

Values

The Jervis Bay Territory occurs in the transition zone between the warm temperate (or Peronian) and the cool temperate (or Maugean) biogeographic provinces, therefore, many marine species found here are at the northern or southern limit of their distribution range (West 1987).

The Jervis Bay Territory occurs near the southern limit of the Hawkesbury Sandstone geological unit. Therefore, many flora species associated with this unit occur at the limit of their distribution. The place represents the southern limit for 29 species, including Acacia elongata var. dilatata, Callistemon linearis, and Melaleuca capitata. The place is the northern limit for four