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outstanding
individual cultural significance, including:

° Government House—which is one of the earliest and most intact remaining buildings of its type in
Australia;
° the Old Military Barracks—which together with the Commissariat Store and New Military Barracks

forms the most substantial military barracks complex in Australia dating from the 1830s;

° the Commissariat Store—which is the finest remaining colonial military commissariat store in
Australia;
° the New Military Barracks—which is one of the finest military barracks buildings built in nineteenth-

century Australia;

° nine houses—which were quarters for military and civil officers;
° the perimeter walls and archaeological remains of the New Prison (Pentagon Prison);
° ruins of the hospital—which was built on First Settlement remains;

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. the landing pier and sea wall—which are two of the earliest remaining large-scale engineering
works in Australia;

. the Beach Store;

° the Settlement Guard House—which is on the foundations of a First Settlement building;
° the Crankmill—which is the only known human powered crankmill in Australia before 1850;
° the Royal Engineer's Office and Stables;

. the Double Boat Shed;

° the Police Office—which is now a boatshed;

° the flaghouse;

. the Constable's Quarters;

. the blacksmith's shop;

. the salt house;

. the windmill base;

° remnant serpentine landscape—which is an outstanding example of colonial period attitudes to
Australian landscape design;

° the cemetery—including its outstanding collection of headstones and evocative and picturesque
setting in the historical landscape; and

° other stone walls, wells, drains, building platforms, bridges, culverts, roads, quarry sites, privies
and archaeological sites of former buildings, including the Bloody Bridge.

KAVHA is also valued for its natural heritage including its geology, particularly the petrified forest and
calcarenite stone, Kingston Swamp, and for its biology, including the marine areas.

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4.4.2 Criterion B—Rarity

KAVHA is the only known pre-European Polynesian occupation site in Australia. Furthermore, it
demonstrates a rare occupation sequence of Polynesian and European settlement in the West Pacific.
KAVHA is a rare site of archaeological evidence of the earliest European settlement in Australia, and is
significant in that it was of similar size to the other initial settlement of Sydney Cove for a decade. This
significance is enhanced by the lack of substantial subsequent development. KAVHA contains the
archaeological remains of two of Australia's three oldest government houses, built in 1788.

Rare areas of natural heritage include the Cemetery Bay dune area with its plant and remnant lowland
forest unique to the Island. This area is