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for visitors to the Island and a direct link to the people who lived there. Later evidence relating to institutional use of the Island for the care and reform of children, contributes to the ongoing story of Cockatoo Island as a place of work and incarceration.
The development and history of Cockatoo Island is intrinsically linked to several Governors of NSW, and noted engineers and military figures, including Governors Gipps and FitzRoy, Major George Barney of the Royal Engineers, Gother Kerr Mann, and Sir William Denison.
The Island was closely associated with the Nautical Training Ships Sobraon and Vernon and is likely to contain the only surviving physical evidence of this highly successful scheme. Its use for a girls' industrial school and reformatory also reflects a lack of adequate financial support for purpose built accommodation for juvenile care for girls in the later nineteenth century. These later uses contribute to the significance of the place but are not in themselves of outstanding heritage significance, particularly as physical remains from this period are minimal.
Cockatoo Island, by virtue of its location, manipulated landform, collection of buildings, works and potential archaeological resources from a significant period of Australia's history is a cultural landscape of State and National Significance. Because of its early use as an imperial convict public works establishment, its ongoing use for construction and repair and the extensive evidence of these important uses that remains on the island, Cockatoo Island has outstanding heritage value to the nation.

Summary Statement of Significance, Cockatoo Island Dockyard CMP
Cockatoo Island's previous dockyard, industrial, maritime and Defence uses, and the surviving physical evidence of those previous uses, are of Commonwealth and National cultural heritage value and significance.
The Island retains an outstanding and unique, geographically and functionally related ensemble of elements. Its layout, buildings, landscape elements, works, machinery and archaeological resources together reflect, illustrate and embody its former use and premier strategic role in Australia's maritime, industrial and Defence history. It demonstrates the changes to maritime and heavy industrial processes and activities in Australia from the mid-nineteenth century. All elements contribute to the heritage value of Cockatoo Island as a whole and have heritage value and significance in their own right.
Cockatoo Island's current layout and street pattern, the two sandstone docks in their dramatic, created escarpment setting, reclaimed waterside 'working platforms', and the form and previous function of most of its buildings and landscapes, in particular, are testimony to the physical dominance and influence of the long period of dockyard industrial, maritime and Defence uses. This physical dominance is the surviving result of the long term national, international and State and Federal Government investment in, and understanding of, the economic and strategic importance