Cultural landscape and Binna Burra Lodge within the world heritage listed Lamington National Park, Australia. #binnaburralodge #culturallandscape

1. Cultural landscape
@ Binna Burra Lodge, Lamington National Park, Australia
Steve Noakes, July 2018

2. What is a ‘cultural landscape’?
‘Cultural landscapes are landscapes that have been affected,
influenced, or shaped by human involvement.’
(Cultural Landscape Foundation, USA)
Cultural Landscape Foundation: https://tclf.org/places/about-cultural-landscapes

3. Cultural landscape …
”… a geographic area, including both cultural and natural resources and the
wildlife or domestic animals therein, associated with a historic event, activity, or
person or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values."
There are four general types of cultural landscapes, not mutually exclusive:
1) historic sites,
2) historic designed landscapes,
3) historic vernacular landscapes,
4) ethnographic landscapes
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
St. Louis, Missouri

4. UNESCO World Heritage Convention
1992: World Heritage Convention becomes the first
international legal instrument to recognise and
protect cultural landscapes.
Cultural landscapes represent the "combined works of nature and of man"
designated in Article 1 of the Convention.
 Illustrative of the evolution of human society and settlement over time,
under the influence of the physical constraints and/or opportunities
presented by their natural environment and of successive social, economic
and cultural forces, both external and internal.
‘There exist a great variety of Landscapes that are representative of the different
regions of the world.
Combined works of nature and humankind, they express a long and intimate
relationship between peoples and their natural environment’
UNESCO

5. 102 properties with 4 transboundary properties (1 delisted property) on the
World Heritage List have been included as cultural landscapes.
Only one location in Australia is on the UNESCO list of ‘cultural landscapes’.
UNESCO World Heritage Convention
Uluru-Kata Tjuta
National Park
Formerly called Uluru
(Ayers Rock – Mount Olga)
National Park

6. World Heritage @ Binna Burra Lodge.
… comprising the major remaining areas of rainforest in southeast
Queensland and northeast New South Wales.
… Gondwana Rainforests provides outstanding examples
of significant ongoing geological processes.
Binna Burra Lodge is located within the Lamington National Park (Queensland),
part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia …

7. Binna Burra Lodge and the Queensland Heritage Register

8. The Queensland Heritage Register is
maintained by the Department of
Environment and Science (DES) under the
Queensland Heritage Act 1992.

9. The Queensland Heritage Register is a list of places that have cultural
heritage significance to the people of Queensland.
Places in the register fall into two categories:
1) State Heritage Place - These places are significant as they contribute to our
understanding of the wider pattern and evolution of Queensland’s history and
heritage. Cultural heritage criteria are used to evaluate the significance of
heritage places.
2) Protected Areas - Have strong heritage values that are vulnerable and under
threat. A permit is required to enter or conduct work within a protected area.

10. Types of places in the register are diverse and include:
• sites of public recreation, parks and gardens
• rural homesteads, suburban houses, flats, caravan parks
• community halls, theatres, picture theatres, showgrounds
• churches, places of worship, sites of public commemoration, burial places
• commercial buildings
• government buildings including schools, police stations, courthouses, post offices
• factories, industrial sites, mining sites
• roads, bridges, railways, railway infrastructure.
Queensland Heritage Register

11. The Queensland Heritage Register does not include places of:
• Indigenous cultural heritage, unless the place has an overlap of Indigenous and
non-Indigenous significance (such as missions). Places of Indigenous cultural
heritage are managed and protected separately.
• Places of local heritage significance. Significant local heritage places may be
entered in a Local Heritage Register or identified in a local government planning
scheme.

12. Binna Burra Cultural Landscape
is listed on the
Queensland Heritage Register
 a place that has cultural heritage
significance to the people of
Queensland.

13. Queensland Heritage Act 1992 (Heritage Act)
Binna Burra meets 3 of the 8 criteria for
‘Cultural Heritage significance.’
Criterion A Criterion E Criterion H
The place or area is
important in
demonstrating the
evolution or pattern of
the local government
area’s history.
The place is important
because of its aesthetic
significance to the local
community.
The place has a special
association with the life
or work of a particular
person, group or
organisation of
importance in the area’s
history.
https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=601899
www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-1992-009#pt.1

14. Object of this Act
(1)The object of this Act is to provide for the conservation of Queensland’s cultural heritage for
the benefit of the community and future generations.
(2)The object is to be primarily achieved by—
(a)establishing the Queensland Heritage Council; and
(b)keeping a register of places and areas of State cultural heritage significance called the
Queensland heritage register; and
(c)requiring the reporting of the discovery of archaeological artefacts and underwater cultural
heritage artefacts; and
(d)providing for the identification and management of places of local cultural heritage
significance by local governments; and
(e)regulating, in conjunction with other legislation, development affecting the cultural heritage
significance of Queensland heritage places; and
(f)providing for heritage agreements to encourage appropriate management of Queensland
heritage places; and
(g)providing for appropriate enforcement powers to help protect Queensland’s cultural heritage.
Queensland Heritage Act 1992 (Heritage Act)

15. The Queensland heritage register
(1)The chief executive must keep a register called the Queensland heritage register.
(2)The Queensland heritage register must include a record of the following—
(a)State heritage places;
(b)protected areas.
(3)An entry in the Queensland heritage register, for each place or area, must—
(a)include enough information to identify the location and boundaries of the place or
area; and
(b)include information about the history of the place or area; and
(c)include a description of the place or area; and
(d)if the place or area is the subject of a heritage agreement—state that fact; and
(e)for a State heritage place—include a statement about the cultural heritage
significance of the place related to the cultural heritage criteria; and
(f)for a protected area—include a statement about the cultural heritage significance of
the place relevant to the declaration of the protected area.
(4)An entry in the Queensland heritage register for a place or area that is the subject of a
heritage agreement may include—
(a)if the person or entity who entered into the agreement with the chief executive is
required to carry out work or do something else under the agreement—information
about the work or thing; or
(b)if development is permitted to be carried out in the place or area under the
agreement—information about the development.
(5)The chief executive may keep the Queensland heritage register in the form, including
electronic form, the chief executive considers appropriate.

16. Binna Burra’s entry on the register
https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=601899

17. Binna Burra’s entry on the register

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39. Binna Burra’s entry on the register: Description
https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=601899#

40. Binna Burra’s entry on the register: Description

41. Binna Burra’s entry on
the register: Map
https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/detail/?id=601899#

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