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linked to the park's geographic information system. The register will include appropriate levels of access for security purposes. It will assist management in identifying sites during planning.

    6.2.6        Negotiate arrangements with the Council for a possible keeping place for protecting artefacts.

    6.3            Historic sites of heritage significance

Aim
    * Post-contact historic sites in the park are adequately recorded and conserved.

Background
The historic use and occupancy of the Booderee area includes fishing, whaling, navigation, grazing, tourism, Aboriginal occupation, Defence activities, logging and plantation forestry. Significant shared cultural heritage of the Booderee area includes the historic Cape St George lighthouse which was completed in 1856 and demolished in the early 1900s; Christians Minde settlement and cemetery (dating from 1890 and not within the park); a historic grave located in the Green Patch camping area; archaeological evidence of a camp used by survivors of the 1835 wreck of the convict ship Hive which lies in NSW waters off Bherwerre Beach; gun emplacements and associated infrastructure on Bowen Island; an abandoned excavation for a nuclear reactor site near Murrays Beach; and a quarry and railway easement for the HMAS Creswell break-wall built in 1915.

Members of the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community and other Kooris were actively involved in developing this shared heritage; they are proud to have been involved in this shared cultural heritage and it has special significance to them. Kooris not only worked alongside non-Aboriginals in the construction and development of many projects during the early settlement of the area but also developed strong associations and friendships with the early settlers. Kooris assisted with building the lighthouse and were friends with the lighthouse staff. They assisted with constructing Christians Minde and helped rescue people from the Hive.

The Cape St George lighthouse complex and Christians Minde settlement were included on the Commonwealth Heritage List in 2004, having previously been listed in the Register of the National Estate. The lighthouse is managed in accordance with a conservation strategy and significant conservation works have been carried out. The Christians Minde cemetery has been managed in accordance with the wishes of the relevant family. Other significant historic sites have had only limited management, such as fencing for site protection. The gun emplacement and associated structures on Bowen Island are inaccessible to the public and some of these structures are overgrown with vegetation.

Issues

    * There are costs associated with maintaining historic sites.

    * Commonwealth Heritage values within the park need ongoing maintenance.

    * There are sites of historic heritage significance located outside and near the boundaries of the park which are vulnerable to human impacts and are accessible by park visitors.

Prescriptions

Policies

    6.3.1        Historic heritage will be conserved in consultation with traditional owners.