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Character Range: 384577–387504

are rare in New South Wales (Taws 1997).

The marine environment of the Jervis Bay Territory includes a variety of habitats. The place includes high sea cliffs pockmarked with vertical gutters and sea caves, intertidal rock platforms, deepwater seagrass beds and sublittoral rocky reefs (West 1987; NSW Fisheries 1994).

Littoral rainforests, occurring on coastal headlands, hind dune zones and some coastal lakes, represent one of the most threatened vegetation formations in New South Wales (Adam 1987; Williams 1993; Evans 1993). This community occurs in sheltered gullies at the place and contains several species at the southern limit of their distribution (Taws 1997).

Criterion: C

The place has significant heritage value because of the place's potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Australia's natural or cultural history

Values

The place is a valuable research site for ecological and paleoecological studies. The University of Canberra has a field station at the place and regularly uses this resource for research and teaching (Cho 1995).

Criterion: G

the place has significant heritage value because of the place's strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons

Values

The place is home to the Koori people of Wreck Bay who have always lived in, and have strong cultural ties to, the area. These cultural ties are evidenced today through oral traditions, the knowledge and practice of the use of natural resources for food and the making of utensils and crafts, and in the respect for country. Through strong family ties, Koori people of Wreck Bay have maintained their traditional association with the area by passing on the ancestral stories and creation stories relating to the area. Parents recite such stories today to their children (Booderee National Park Board of Management 2002).

The high density of midden sites towards the eastern end of Wreck Bay reflects the preferred fishing zones of the present Wreck Bay Community demonstrating a continuity of use despite changing lifestyles (Booderee National Park Board of Management 2002).

The settlement, the graveyard and other Aboriginal graves on the peninsula are highly significant to the Wreck Bay Community (Egloff, Navin & Officer 1981).

Criterion: I

The place has significant heritage value because of the place's importance as part of Indigenous tradition

Values

Ceremonial BUNAN or BORA grounds, used for initiation, are known only from the immediate hinterland of Wreck Bay, and nearly all known grinding groove sites are in the catchments of Mary and Summercloud Bays (Booderee National Park Board of Management 2002). These sites demonstrate past cultural practices and the BUNAN are spiritually important to the Wreck Bay community.

Condition and Integrity:

Natural Values:

The majority of the Jervis Bay Territory