4.1 Background

The assessment in this chapter is based on four components of heritage. These include three components which consider the Region’s heritage values (natural, Indigenous and historic heritage values), some of which extend beyond the Region’s boundary. These values align with the national heritage domains.5,1062 The fourth component considers other heritage values, and these are attributes of heritage significance (social, aesthetic and scientific) (Figure 4.1). The combined assessment of these values is the same as the previous Outlook Reports.

Photograph of a white and red lighthouse with a sea view towards the mainland.
Dent Island Lighthouse. © Commonwealth of Australia (Reef Authority). Photographer: Alicia Moisel 2024
Figure 4.1
Other heritage values

The Outlook Report 2024 assesses ‘other heritage values’ in addition to the components outlined in 
the Marine Park regulations. Source: Commonwealth of Australia 6 ,1063 and Pocock et al. (2002)1064

A two-tiered diagram with an elongated icon listing Human wellbeing in the first line of its top tier, followed by the associated adjectives healthy, secure, sustainable, cohesive and prosperous in the second line.
  • 5. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority 2019, Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2019, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville.
  • 6. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • 1064. Pocock, C. 2002, Sense matters: aesthetic values of the Great Barrier Reef, International Journal of Heritage Studies 8(4): 365-381.