Heritage sites, Archaeological discoveries, History of Archaeology

Greater Blue Mountains Area

Location

New South Wales

Country

Australia

Year of Research

2000

Culture

It consists of 1.03 million ha of sandstone plateaux, escarpments and gorges which are dominated by temperate eucalypt forest.
It is comprised of eight protected areas and is noted for its representation of the evolutionary adaptation and diversification of the eucalypts in post-Gondwana isolation on the Australian continent.
Ninety-one eucalypt taxa appear within the Greater Blue Mountains Area which is also outstanding for its exceptional expression of the structural and ecological diversity of the eucalypts associated with its wide range of habitats.
The site gives significant representation of Australia's biodiversity with ten percent of the vascular flora as well as significant numbers of rare or threatened species, including endemic and evolutionary relict species, such as the Wollemi pine, which have persisted in highly-prohibited microsites.