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on its steel lattice stand, the fowl house, and the spa bath and its roof (Figure 11).

4.6. The lightstation setting
The heritage value of the lightstation could be affected adversely by changes in its visual setting — this is the area seen around the lightstation from seaward, from the shore up to the line of the ridge behind the station to the east, and extending about 300 m to the north and south of the station.

Dent Island is an area of steep and moderate vegetated slopes rising from the rocky foreshore up to a ridge that runs roughly parallel with the shore line. It is covered with eucalypt forest and woodland (Corymbia tessellaris and Eucalyptus tereticornis) open forest and vine thicket understorey on hill slopes, also present are areas of variable eucalypt dominated associations (often with Eucalyptus drepanophylla, E. crebra, Acacia spirorbis subsp. solandri, Lophostemon confertus and E. exserta) and grassland on the southern portion (Xanthorrhoea latifolia subsp. latifolia shrubland and Imperata cylindrica grassland, including some areas recently colonised by Timonius timon shrubland), with a few clumps of hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii).  It contrasts with the more open landscape of the lightstation where native trees have been cleared (except for the hoop pines), the grass has been kept mown, and garden plants have been introduced.

5. Cultural significance
The cultural significance of the Dent Island Lightstation is set out in the entry in the Commonwealth Heritage List to which the lightstation was added in 2004. The cultural significance as described is discrete from the overall Aboriginal cultural significance of the entire region as noted previously.  The statements from the list are reproduced below, with some comments and suggestions made on the basis of recent investigations.

5.1. Previous listings
The cultural significance of the Dent Island Lightstation was already recognised when the EPBC Act came into effect. The following listings are noted here for the record, although they do not have any legislative effect on the management or operation of the lightstation.

      * The National Trust of Queensland Register — the lightstation is currently not listed by the National Trust (pers. Comm 2012, National Trust of Queensland).

      * The Queensland Heritage Register — Dent Island Lighthouse was entered in the state register at the commencement of the Queensland Heritage Act 1992 under the transitional arrangements from the Heritage Buildings Protection Act 1990, but was later removed after legal advice that listing in the State register was not valid for Commonwealth-owned places. As a result of receiving this advice about the Dent Island case, the Queensland Heritage Council removed from its register all other places owned by the Commonwealth (pers. comm. 2012, Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection).

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