Australia - Heritage & Landmarks
Cultural Heritage (2)
Sydney Opera House
An iconic 20th-century building with distinctive sail-shaped roof shells.
Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens
A 19th-century exhibition hall, one of the last surviving purpose-built exhibition buildings.
Natural Heritage (6)
Greater Blue Mountains Area
A vast area of eucalyptus-covered plateaus, cliffs, and gorges releasing a distinctive blue haze.
Shark Bay
A bay with stromatolites (among the world's oldest life forms) and diverse marine life.
Great Barrier Reef
The world's largest coral reef system with 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands.
Ningaloo Reef
A 260km fringing coral reef with whale shark encounters and pristine beaches.
Daintree Rainforest
The oldest continually surviving tropical rainforest in the world at 180 million years.
Blue Mountains
A region of sandstone plateaus, cliffs, and eucalyptus forests west of Sydney.
Mixed Heritage (3)
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
A sacred Aboriginal site with the iconic red monolith Uluru (Ayers Rock).
Tasmanian Wilderness
A vast temperate wilderness covering nearly a quarter of Tasmania.
Kakadu National Park
A vast park with Aboriginal rock art dating back 20,000 years and diverse ecosystems.
Landmark (3)
Adelaide Wine Regions (Barossa Valley)
World-renowned wine regions including Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
An iconic steel arch bridge spanning Sydney Harbour, nicknamed 'The Coathanger'.
Great Ocean Road and Twelve Apostles
A scenic coastal road with dramatic limestone sea stacks rising from the ocean.