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foremost a site of continuous and active use as a place of worship, residence, work and of recreation since the
arrival at the Kingston Pier in 1856 of the Pitcairn Islanders, from whom one third of the Island's population is
descended.

KAVHA holds significant symbolic, ceremonial, religious, lifestyle and cultural association in a unique built and
natural environment.

KAVHA is significant for its association with the settlement of the Pitcairners and the evolution and development
of the Norfolk Island community.

It is highly valued by the Australian community being one of a relatively small number of sites identified by a
wide variety of Australians as landmarks of Australian's historical development.

KAVHA is significant for its archaeological research potential to contribute to a wider understanding of the
history of pre-European Polynesian occupation of Norfolk Island.

It has archaeological research potential to contribute to a wider understanding of the history of the First and
Second Settlements of Norfolk Island and Australia.

KAVHA is also significant for its archaeological research potential to contribute to the history of the Third
Settlement period.

It is valued by the Norfolk Island, Australian, and international communities as a place of educational potential.

KAVHA is significant for its topography, the littoral, the watercourses and its connection to the lagoon and
marine environment.

KAVHA contains wetland habitat and remnant vegetation. The wetlands are particularly valuable as a resting
place for migratory birds and in supporting a population of rare crustaceans found only on Norfolk Island.2

22008 CMP Section 4.4.

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4.6 Summary Statement of Significance

The following summary Statement of Significance has been prepared for the KAVHA site.
It endeavours to reflect the historic, aesthetic, social/spiritual and scientific values in the
preceding assessments and statements of significance, and to provide a basis for
management.

The KAVHA site is a historic cultural landscape that, in the course and pattern of Australian and world
history, presents an extraordinary record of convict settlement, agricultural production and labour
spanning the era of penal transportation to Australia from 1788-1855. Archaeological evidence shows the
KAVHA site to be rare as the site of the earliest European settlement from Australia to the Southwest
Pacific (1788). It contains areas and individual elements that are confirmed or well documented sites of
First (Colonial) Settlement buildings and activities (1788-1814). The KAVHA site is important for its role in
the evolution of the colony of New South Wales. Arriving in March 1788, six weeks after the First Fleet
landed in Sydney, the building and archaeological remains and landforms of the First (Colonial)
Settlement (1788-1814) illustrate British convict settlement, and living and working