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Character Range: 449136–451871

1 August 2007

EXTERNAL TERRITORIES
Norfolk Island Area

Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area:

About 250ha, at Kingston, being an arca bounded by a linc commencing at the High Water Mark
approximatcly 120m to the south cast of Bloody Bridge, then proceeding westerly via the High Watcr
Mark to about 230m west of the castern boundary of Block 91a, then from high water level following the
watershed boundary along the ridge west of Watermill Creck up to the 90m contour, then north-westerly
via that contour to the boundary of Block 176, then following the western and northern boundary of
Block 176 or the 90m ASL (whichever is the lower) to the north west corner of Block 52r, then via the
northern boundary of Block 52r and its prolongation across Taylors Road to the western boundary of
Block 79a, then northerly and casterly via the western and northern boundary of Block 79a to its
intersection with the 90m ASL, then casterly via the 90m ASL to its intersection with the castern
boundary of Block 64b, then south castcrly via the castern boundary of Block 64b to its intersection with
Block 65d2, then northerly and southerly via the northern and castern boundary of Block 65d2 to Rooty
Hill Road, then directly across this road to the north cast corner of Block 67a, then south casterly via the
north cast boundary of Block 67a to its intersection with the north west boundary of Block 67c, then
north castcrly and south casterly via the north west and north cast boundary of Block 67c to Driver
Christian Road, then castcrly via the southern side of Driver Christian Road to a point where it vecrs
south (approximately 60 metres to the cast), then southerly via the western road reserve boundary of
Driver Christian Road and its prolongation to the High Water Mark (point of commencement).

Criterion Values

(a) _ the place has Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Arca (KA VHA) is outstanding as a
outstanding heritage — convict scttlement spanning the cra of convict transportation to castcrn
value to the nation Australia. It is a cultural landscape comprising a large group of buildings from

because of the place's
importance in the
course, or pattern, of
Australia's natural or
cultural history.

the convict cra, some modificd during the Pitcairn period (the third
settlement), substantial ruins and standing structures, archacological remains,
landform and landscape clements.

KAVHA is of outstanding national significance in demonstrating the role of

the penal systems and changes in penal philosophy in the Australian colonics
from 1788-1855.

KAVHA is important for its role in the evolution of the colonics of both Van
Dicmen's Land and New South Walcs. The buildings, archacological remains
and landforms of