Australia has a total of 19 UNESCO World Heritage listed sites

Australia has an aggregate of 19 UNESCO World Heritage-recorded destinations which incorporate a portion of the most seasoned rainforests on earth and around 33% of the world's secured marine ranges.

An UNESCO World Heritage Site is a spot, for example, a wild region island notable landmark building or city that is considered by a global advisory group as having exceptional social or physical centrality to the universal group.

Selected locales must be of 'extraordinary all inclusive esteem' and meet no less than one of ten social or normal criteria. These World Heritage destinations get to be national fortunes that must be secured and protected by the host nation.

A hefty portion of Australia's notorious destinations are World Heritage-recorded locales, for example, the Great Barrier Reefand the Wet Tropics of Queensland which incorporates the Daintree Rainforest; the Greater Blue Mountainsin New South Wales; the Northern Territory's Kakaduand Uluru/Kata Tjuta National Parks; and Western Australia's Purnululu National Park in the Kimberley.

The Ningaloo Coast in Western Australia has as of late been recorded on the World Heritage List for its characteristic excellence and organic differing qualities. The Ningaloo-Shark Bay National Landscape now brags two World Heritage ranges at its northern and southern closures. The 1.3 million hectare Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area meets seven of the ten criteria more than anyplace else on earth.

Australia's unfathomable regions of normal and unblemished environment have likewise pulled in World Heritage status, for example, the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia crosswise over New South Wales and Queensland; and the Willandra Lakes Region in NSW.

Large portions of Australia's World Heritage destinations are in remote areas and you'll require a gutsy soul to visit them, for example, the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites at Naracoorte in South Australia and Riversleigh in Queensland.

There are 11 locales that make up the World Heritage Australian Convict Sites which speak to the constrained movement of convicts to correctional provinces in the eighteenth and nineteenth hundreds of years; and are phenomenal illustrations of Australia's rich history.

The destinations in New South Wales are Old Government House and the Domain at Parramatta; Hyde Park Barracks and the Cockatoo Island Convict Site in Sydney; and Old Great North Road close to Wiseman's Ferry.

In Tasmania the Port Arthur Historic Site on the Tasman Peninsula; Cascades Female Factory in Hobart; Darlington Probation Station on Maria Island; the Coal Mines Historic Site close Premadeyna; and the Brickendon-Woolmers Estates close Longford are all World Heritage Australian Convict Sites.

Western Australia has the Fremantle Prison; while Norfolk Island off the New South Wales coast has the Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area.

Noteworthy structures that have accomplished World Heritage posting are the Sydney Opera House and Melbourne's Royal Exhibition Buildings and Carlton Gardens.

Indeed, even entire islands are on the prestigious rundown, for example, Queensland's Fraser Island; the whole Lord Howe Island Group off the shoreline of New South Wales; and Macquarie Heard and McDonald Islands in the sub-Antarctic district off the bank of Tasmania.

Some of Australia's World Heritage zones must be gotten to just by 4WD or air yet most can be come to without anyone else drive or with a nearby visit administrator.