Cockatoo Island, New South Wales
Cockatoo Island is significant as a site that includes the only remaining dry dock in Australia built using convict labour, as well as buildings and fabric related to the administration, incarceration and working conditions of convicts. Cockatoo Island also contains the nation's most extensive and varied record of shipbuilding and has the potential to enhance our understanding of maritime and heavy industrial processes in Australia from the mid-19th century.
Today it is possible to visit Cockatoo Island by ferry.
Cockatoo Island was included in the National Heritage List on 1 August 2007.
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