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,
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 Clare and Barossa Valleys, the Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale and the Fleurieu Peninsula. The Adelaide Hills, Alexandrina, Mount Barker, Barossa, Clare and Gilbert Valleys, Mid-Murray, Mitcham, Onkaparinga and Yankalilla councils are collaborating with Regional Development Australia Barossa and the the Centre for Global Food Studies and Resources at the University of Adelaide to pursue National Heritage listing of the region's agricultural landscapes as a precursor to World Heritage nomination. The council consortium are in ongoing discussions with the South Australian government and the Australian federal government around developing a nomination for World Heritage listing in tandem with the National Heritage Listing nomination.
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 agricultural landscapes of the Mount Lofty Ranges?
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 those original utopian ideals in the contemporary landscape and contemporary land management practice form the basis of the World Heritage bid.
The potential World Heritage area is yet to be defined but is based on the early South Australian survey areas in a series of landscapes stretching from the Fleurieu Peninsula in the south to the Clare Valley in the north. A feasibility report and economic impact study presenting the argument and rationale for World Heritage listing can be accessed at the link below while an interactive online map and original survey map can be found at the Maps section of this website. 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 Clare and Barossa Valleys, the Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale and the Fleurieu Peninsula. The Adelaide Hills, Alexandrina, Mount Barker, Barossa, Clare and Gilbert Valleys, Mid-Murray, Mitcham, Onkaparinga and Yankalilla councils are collaborating with Regional Development Australia Barossa and the the Centre for Global Food Studies and Resources at the University of Adelaide to pursue National Heritage listing of the region's agricultural landscapes as a precursor to World Heritage nomination. The council consortium are in ongoing discussions with the South Australian government and the Australian federal government around developing a nomination for World Heritage listing in tandem with the National Heritage Listing nomination.
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 agricultural landscapes of the Mount Lofty Ranges?
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 those original utopian ideals in the contemporary landscape and contemporary land management practice form the basis of the World Heritage bid.
The potential World Heritage area is yet to be defined but is based on the early South Australian survey areas in a series of landscapes stretching from the Fleurieu Peninsula in the south to the Clare Valley in the north. A feasibility report and economic impact study presenting the argument and rationale for World Heritage listing can be accessed at the link below while an interactive online map and original survey map can be found at the Maps section of this website. Exploring UNESCO World Heritage Listing for the Mount Lofty Ranges Agrarian Landscape
Please click on the FAQs tab of this website for more detail.