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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 and Arthur's Vale Historic Area—Heritage Management Plan, April 2016
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Official Residence, Parliament, lighterage, residential accommodation, industrial/commercial and
Pitcairner; Bloody Bridge; the sand dunes; the Swamp; roads; and Government House.

KAVHA is valued by visitors for its rich history and genealogical connections

Attributes

The whole of the historic and natural environment of KAVHA, and the particular elements identified above.
Criterion H Significant people

KAVHA is significant for its association with many of Australia's founding and other early personalities
including King, Hunter, Foveaux, Wentworth, Anderson, Maconochie, Price and Cash.

Attributes

The whole of the historic and natural environment of KAVHA.

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Kingston & Arthurs Vale Historic Area

Statement of Significance

Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area (KAVHA) is
significant for its association with four distinct settlement
periods in one place: the pre-European Polynesian
occupation; the First and Second Settlements during the
convict era (1788-1814, 1825-55); and the Pitcairn period
(1856-present), referred to as the Third Settlement. KAVHA
comprises a large group of buildings from the convict era;
some modified during the Pitcairn period. The substantial
ruins and standing structures, archaeological sub-surface
remains, landform and cultural landscape elements are
significant as an outstanding example of the development of
global convict transportation. KAVHA is significant for its
close association with the wreck of the Sirius in 1790.
KAVHA is significant for its association with the settlement of
the Pitcairners and the evolution and development of the
Norfolk Island community. It is highly valued by the
Australian community being one of a 'relatively small number
of sites identified by a wide variety of Australians as
landmarks of Australia's historical development. ;
significant for its rare association with pre-European a —
Polynesian settlement. It is rare for being the site of the :
earliest European settlement of Australia and the southwest
Pacific (1788), containing areas and individual elements of
First Settlement buildings and activities. — ~ KAVHA is the A
primary site of the Second Settlement period. and contains Ny
the landform, layout, extensive" buildings, S __standing '
structures, archaeological remains and remnant landscape Seat
features of the period. It is an outstanding rare "example ofa —
place of secondary punishment for nineteenth century British

convicts. Since 1856, KAVHA has been the administrative

centre for the social,