Detail: Martha Berkeley, Australia, 1813 -1899, Mount Lofty from The Terrace, Adelaide, c.1840, Adelaide; South Australian Government Grant 1935, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
The Mount Lofty Ranges Agrarian Landscape World Heritage Bid
What is the Mount Lofty Ranges World Heritage Bid?
The Mount Lofty Ranges World Heritage Bid spans the world-renowned food, wine and tourism regions of the Barossa Valley, the Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale and the Fleurieu Peninsula. The Adelaide Hills, Mt Barker, Barossa and Onkaparinga councils are collaborating with Regional Development Australia Barossa and Global Food Studies at the University of Adelaide to pursue National Heritage listing of the region's agricultural landscapes. Alexandrina Council also voted recently to join the bid. Following successful National Heritage listing the councils involved will consider lobbying the Australian federal government to pursue World Heritage listing with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
The World Heritage list seeks to encourage the identification, protection, preservation and promotion of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
What are the grounds for World Heritage listing of the Mount Lofty Ranges region?
We are pursuing listing for the heritage values associated with a ground-breaking 19th century model of colonisation. South Australia was the first place in Australia to be planned and developed by free settlers without the use of convict labour, and the first place in the world to apply the 'systematic colonisation' model developed by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham and members of the British-based 'National Colonization Society.' According to Wakefield, it was ‘the first attempt since the time of the ancient Greeks to colonise systematically’.
The region’s links to this unique philosophical movement of universal significance, and the continuing reflection of utopian ideals in the contemporary landscape form the basis of the World Heritage bid.
The potential World Heritage area is yet to be defined but could stretch from the Fleurieu Peninsula in the south to the Barossa Valley in the north.
A feasibility report and economic impact study presenting the argument and rationale for WHS listing can be accessed at this link: Exploring UNESCO World Heritage Listing for the Mount Lofty Ranges Agrarian Landscape
Please click on the FAQs tab of this website for more detail.
The Mount Lofty Ranges World Heritage Bid spans the world-renowned food, wine and tourism regions of the Barossa Valley, the Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale and the Fleurieu Peninsula. The Adelaide Hills, Mt Barker, Barossa and Onkaparinga councils are collaborating with Regional Development Australia Barossa and Global Food Studies at the University of Adelaide to pursue National Heritage listing of the region's agricultural landscapes. Alexandrina Council also voted recently to join the bid. Following successful National Heritage listing the councils involved will consider lobbying the Australian federal government to pursue World Heritage listing with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
The World Heritage list seeks to encourage the identification, protection, preservation and promotion of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
What are the grounds for World Heritage listing of the Mount Lofty Ranges region?
We are pursuing listing for the heritage values associated with a ground-breaking 19th century model of colonisation. South Australia was the first place in Australia to be planned and developed by free settlers without the use of convict labour, and the first place in the world to apply the 'systematic colonisation' model developed by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham and members of the British-based 'National Colonization Society.' According to Wakefield, it was ‘the first attempt since the time of the ancient Greeks to colonise systematically’.
The region’s links to this unique philosophical movement of universal significance, and the continuing reflection of utopian ideals in the contemporary landscape form the basis of the World Heritage bid.
The potential World Heritage area is yet to be defined but could stretch from the Fleurieu Peninsula in the south to the Barossa Valley in the north.
A feasibility report and economic impact study presenting the argument and rationale for WHS listing can be accessed at this link: Exploring UNESCO World Heritage Listing for the Mount Lofty Ranges Agrarian Landscape
Please click on the FAQs tab of this website for more detail.
