TIMELINE WILDERNESS demonstrate human occupation during National Heritage Places tell the of Australia’s the last ice age, showing how people practiced first peoples over tens of thousands of years. hunting and gathering over long periods of time in extreme The first meeting of the continent’s first people with climatic conditions. Europeans probably occurred in Western Australia as Dutch ships were wrecked on the trip north to the In the region of Western Tasmania, also as the Spice Islands (now Indonesia), and sailors such as Tarkine, the WESTERN TASMANIA ABORIGINAL Dirk Den Hartog left records of their temporary CULTURAL LANDSCAPE represents some of the presence at the DIRK HARTOG LANDING SITE. best evidence of the lifestyle of Aboriginal people in the past. Dotted along the coastline are the remains But it is on the KURNELL PENINSULA on Botany Bay of numerous hut depressions found in Aboriginal that in 1770 they first met men of the British Empire middens. These huts and middens are the remnants of from the scientific expedition led by James Cook. At an unusual specialised and more settled Aboriginal Sydney Cove in Colonial Sydney, Bennelong and way of life that began almost 2000 years ago and others faced for the first time the colonisation of their continued up to the 1830s, based on the hunting of land by another people, the first claim by outsiders to seals and land mammals, and the gathering of the land and the first attempts to farm and create shellfish. permanent settlements on the land. The WILLANDRA REGION provides an The records of the D’Entrecasteaux expedition to exceptional sequence of Aboriginal cultural Recherche Bay are important observations of the occupation extending over tens of thousands of years, Tasmania people before European settlement, and and is World Heritage listed. surviving archaeological remains of that visit define an associative cultural landscape of outstanding The ancient site of the JORDAN RIVER LEVEE heritage value. contains artefacts showing Aboriginal occupation from approximately 37,000–40,000 years ago. Sites in the World Heritage TASMANIAN
TIMELINE National Heritage Places tell the of Australia’s first peoples over tens of thousands of years. The first meeting of the continent’s first people with Europeans probably occurred in Western Australia as Dutch ships were wrecked on the trip north to the Spice Islands (now Indonesia), and sailors such as Dirk Den Hartog left records of their temporary presence at the DIRK HARTOG LANDING SITE. But it is on the KURNELL PENINSULA on Botany Bay that in 1770 they first met men of the British Empire from the scientific expedition led by James Cook. At Sydney Cove in Colonial Sydney, Bennelong and others faced for the first time the colonisation of their land by another people, the first claim by outsiders to the land and the first attempts to farm and create permanent settlements on the land. The records of the D’Entrecasteaux expedition to Recherche Bay are important observations of the Tasmania people before European settlement, and surviving archaeological remains of that visit define an associative cultural landscape of outstanding heritage value. Sites in the World Heritage TASMANIAN WILDERNESS demonstrate human occupation during the last ice age, showing how people practiced hunting and gathering over long periods of time in extreme climatic conditions. In the region of Western Tasmania, also as the Tarkine, the WESTERN TASMANIA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL LANDSCAPE represents some of the best evidence of the lifestyle of Aboriginal people in the past. Dotted along the coastline are the remains of numerous hut depressions found in Aboriginal middens. These huts and middens are the remnants of an unusual specialised and more settled Aboriginal way of life that began almost 2000 years ago and continued up to the 1830s, based on the hunting of seals and land mammals, and the gathering of shellfish. The WILLANDRA REGION provides an exceptional sequence of Aboriginal cultural occupation extending over tens of thousands of years, and is World Heritage listed. The ancient site of the JORDAN RIVER LEVEE contains artefacts showing Aboriginal occupation from approximately 37,000–40,000 years ago.
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