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contents and objects.

Cultural Tradition: Includes all traditional customary practices and beliefs relating to the aspects of community
life.

Culvert: A channel or conduit carrying water under a road.

Curtilage: The geographical area that provides the physical context for an item and which contributes to its
heritage significance. Land title boundaries and heritage curtilages do not necessarily coincide.

Development Control Plan (DCP): A plan prepared by a local government agency to provide more detailed
development controls and guidelines to accompany a broader planning instrument, such as the Norfolk Island
Plan. Often used for Heritage Conservation Areas.

Drift Voyage: A relatively imprecise form of navigation relying on currents and trade winds.

Endemic: Flora or fauna native to a particular geographic area only, for instance the Norfolk Island pine is
endemic only to Norfolk Island.

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cwlth): EPBC Act—Commonwealth
legislation that came into force on 16 July 2000, replacing several earlier statutes. It focuses Commonwealth
interests on matters of national environmental significance, Commonwealth areas and actions; establishes an
environmental assessment and approvals process; and establishes an integrated regime for biodiversity
conservation and the management of important protected areas.

Fabric: The physical material of the place including components, fixtures, contents and objects.
Fauna: The animals of a particular region, both endemic and introduced species.

First (Colonial) Settlement: The settlement on Norfolk Island in the period between 1788 and 1814.
Flora: The plants of a particular region, both endemic and introduced species.

Heritage Significance: Aesthetic, historic, scientific, cultural, social, archaeological, natural or aesthetic value
for past, present or future generations.

Historical Significance: An item having this value is significant because of the importance of its relationship to
the evolving pattern of our cultural history.

ICOMOS: The International Council for Monuments and Sites. ICOMOS is one of the advisory bodies to the
World Heritage Committee. ICOMOS advises in relation to cultural heritage.

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Intangible Cultural Heritage: The practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills—as well as the
instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith—that communities, groups and (in
some cases) individuals recognise as part of their cultural heritage. This intangible cultural heritage, transmitted
from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their
environment, interaction with nature and history, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity, thus
promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity.

Integrity: A measure of the wholeness and intactness of a World Heritage property and its attributes,
particularly whether it includes all elements necessary to express its Outstanding Universal Value, is of
adequate size to ensure the complete representation of the features and