List of Overseas Places of Historic Significance to Australia
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The List of Overseas Places of Historic Significance to Australia (LOPHSA) is a list of sites outside Australian jurisdiction deemed to be of outstanding historic significance to Australia. Once on the list the provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
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In 2007 the first three sites on the List were gazetted.
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and culturally significant places...
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In 2007 the first three sites on the List were gazetted.
List
The List of Overseas Places of Historic Significance to Australia comprises the following sites:# | |Image | |Listed place | |Country | |Date listed | |Coordinates | |Notes |
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1 | Anzac Cove, Gallipoli Anzac Cove Anzac Cove is a small cove on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. It became famous as the site of World War I landing of the ANZAC on April 25, 1915. The cove is a mere long, bounded by the headlands of Ari Burnu to the north and Little Ari Burnu, known as Hell Spit, to the south... (listing) |
Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe... |
2007 | 40°14′46"N 26°16′40"E | ||
2 | Kokoda Track Kokoda Track The Kokoda Trail or Track is a single-file foot thoroughfare that runs overland — in a straight line — through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea... (listing) |
Papua New Guinea | 2007 | 8°52′39.95"S 147°44′14.99"E | ||
3 | Howard Florey's Laboratory, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Sir William Dunn School of Pathology The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology is a Department within the University of Oxford . Its research programme includes the cellular and molecular biology of pathogens, the immune response, cancer and cardiovascular disease... (listing) |
England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental... |
2007 | 51.7595°N 1.2515°W | ||