Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L01891:body:0:p166
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L01891
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 474216–477157

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 islands,
historic graves, Quality Row buildings in a ruinous state, and the extent of the nineteenth century
character buildings. The picturesque landscape setting, with its domestic scale and agricultural character,
is valued for the contrast it represents between the horror of the past and the charm of the present.

KAVHA is significant for its views across the site, within the site, from the site to the seascape, and views
of the site in its landscape setting.

Attributes

Its picturesque setting, historic associations, part ruinous configuration and subsequently undeveloped
nature, plus its views across the site, within the site, from the site to the seascape, and views of the site in
its landscape setting. Specific elements include the sea, reef and islands, historic graves, Quality Row
buildings in a ruinous state, and the extent of the nineteenth century character buildings. Also, the
domestic scale and agricultural character of the landscape setting.

Criterion G Social value

Norfolk Island is first and foremost the home of its residents who value KAVHA as a sacred site because it
has been continually and actively used as a place of residence, work and recreation since the arrival at
Kingston Pier in 1856 of the Pitcairn Islanders, from whom one third of the island's population is
descended. It holds significant symbolic, ceremonial, religious, lifestyle and cultural associations in a
unique built and natural environment.

KAVHA is valued by the Norfolk Island residents for being a place of traditional and ongoing uses,
including the continuity of a working waterfront at the Landing Pier; the centre of administration with the
Norfolk Island Court, Legislative Assembly, Norfolk Island Government Administration and Administrator's
Office and Official Residence being located in the place; the religious focus being All Saints Church and
the cemetery; areas for recreation and both passive and active sports; and as the cultural centre providing
a meeting place for cultural and social events, museums and archaeological sites.

Individual elements of the place identified by the Norfolk Island community for their social significance are
the Landing Pier; the foreshores; the Prisoner's Barracks (known as the Compound); the commons; the
sports oval; Point Hunter; the War Memorial; the Cemetery; the Commissariat Store; World War Two sites,
including: Point Hunter, the Landing Pier, the Military Barracks, the Cemetery and Government House; the
mix of land uses within the place including lease holdings, freehold titles, private dwellings, commercial
activities, cultural and special events; the building uses are museums, a Church, administrative, the

Kingston