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severity of the transportation system. KAVHA demonstrates the range of
activities and structures associated with a secondary punishment penal settlement. It is an outstanding
example of different aspects of convict control and its use as a deterrent to crime in Britain. The built
elements of Quality Row, formerly known as Military Row, form an intact Georgian administration centre
and the most extensive street of surviving (although part reconstructed) pre-1850 penal settlement
buildings in Australia. It contains a group of houses that is one of three streets of pre-1850 military officers'
residences in Australia, illustrating a Georgian streetscape and town plan.

The KAVHA Second Settlement period demonstrates the planning and daily operation of a nineteenth
century penal settlement, the physical segregation of classes of convicts, overseers, the military,
magistrates and command quarters, changing attitudes to penology of the British Colonial Office and the
Governors of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), the initial lack of religious guidance
and the tenuous relationship between the Church and the State at Norfolk Island and information about
the roles, work and conditions for women and children in a penal colony.

Along with the Tasman Peninsula buildings and Maria Island, Tasmania, KAVHA demonstrates the
principal characteristics of buildings for secondary punishment of nineteenth century British convicts in
Australia. The fabric of the Second Settlement clearly shows the method of construction, building
techniques and way of life.

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Jean Rice Architect | CONTEXT | GML Heritage

Since 1856 KAVHA has been the administrative centre for the social, religious and political development
of the Norfolk Island community, originally descendants of Polynesians and the participants in perhaps the
most famous naval mutiny in modern British history. It retains rare evidence of this Third Settlement period
and contains elements and groups of elements along with continuing uses that illustrate aspects of this
significance.

Attributes

Buildings, ruins, standing structures, archaeological sub-surface remains, landform and cultural landscape
elements from the convict era, and their high integrity, including the built elements of Quality Row, with its
Georgian streetscape and town plan. Also, post 1856 fabric that demonstrates continuing occupation of
the island.

Criterion E Aesthetic characteristics

KAVHA is significant for its picturesque setting, historic associations, part ruinous configuration and
subsequently undeveloped nature, enabling the visitor to appreciate aspects of the history of Britain,
Australia and the South Pacific with rare thematic clarity. The aesthetic qualities of the landscape have
been acknowledged since the First Settlement, forming the subject matter of an artistic record that has
continued to the present, and is still recognisable in its present form.

There are many elements that contribute to the aesthetic drama of the place, the sea, reef and