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to expand
the colony, provide transportation and communication links with dispersed
settlements, and provide harsh punishment for convicts.

The place has strong associations with the local community as evidenced by the
Convict Trail Project which two local communities instigated in 1994 by
building on existing community involvement in initiatives to preserve the local
area.

The Convict Trail Project has become an over-arching body that draws together
all parties with an interest in the Great North Road, including community,
government, research and heritage professionals. It has been nationally
recognised as one of the most successful community-based heritage

organisations.

Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area—Heritage Management Plan, April 2016

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4 Special Gazette

Jean Rice Architect | CONTEXT | GML Heritage

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
No. S141, 1 August 2007

NEW SOUTH WALES

Leichhardt Municipality

Cockatoo Island:

About 18ha, in Sydney Harbour, between Birchgrove Point and Woolwich Point, comprising the
whole of the Island to low water.

Criterion

(a) _ the place has
outstanding heritage
value to the nation
because of the
place's importance
in the course, or
pattern, of
Australia's natural or
cultural history.

Values

Cockatoo Island is a convict industrial settlement and pre and post-federation

shipbuilding complex. It is important in the course of Australia's cultural history
for its use as a place of convict hard labour, secondary punishment and for public

works, namely its history and contributions to the nation as a dockyard.

Fitzroy Dock is outstanding as the only remaining dry dock built using convict
and prisoner labour and it is one of the largest convict-era public works
surviving in Sydney. The dock was the earliest graving dock commenced in
Australia and was one of the largest engineering projects completed in Australia
to that time. Convicts excavated 580,000 cubic feet of rock creating 45 foot (14
metre) sandstone cliffs that extended around the site just to prepare the area for
the dock, a huge technical achievement in itself.

The dockyard's lengthy 134 years of operation and its significance during both
world wars, and in Australia's naval development and service as the
Commonwealth dockyard all contribute to its outstanding value to the nation. It
is the only surviving example of a 19th century dockyard in Australia to retain
some of the original service buildings including the pump house and machine
shop. The powerhouse, constructed in 1918, contains the most extensive
collection of early Australian electrical, hydraulic power and pumping
equipment in Australia.

The surviving fabric 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