Riversleigh and Naracoorte
Also known as Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte), Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte) World Heritage Site (natural or mixed), Sites fossilifères de mammifères d'Australie (Riversleigh / Naracoorte)
Category
Natural
Inscribed under criteria (viii), (ix).
Region
Asia and the Pacific
Australia
Inscribed
1994
Area
10,326 ha
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Location
Where it sits, and what is around it
Riversleigh and Naracoorte is about 780 km west of Cairns.
Nearest towns and cities
- Mount Isa · about 33,000 peopleabout 200 km south-east
- Alice Springs · about 28,000 peopleabout 720 km south-west
- Cairns · about 154,000 peopleabout 780 km east
- Townsville · about 139,000 peopleabout 850 km east
- Mackay · about 76,000 peopleabout 1110 km east
- Darwin · about 93,000 peopleabout 1120 km north-west
Nearby World Heritage sites
The nearest neighbours, as the crow flies
No other World Heritage sites lie within 600 km.
Further resources
The official record, while our own profile is in hand
The official record
- World Heritage Centre page for this sitewhc.unesco.org
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