The Australian Heritage Database is a listing of heritage sites in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It is maintained by the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (Australia), in consultation with Australian Heritage Council

Australian Heritage Council

Australian Heritage Council was established on 19 February, 2004 as the Australian body responsible for advising the Australian Government on cultural heritage matters...

. There are more than twenty thousand entries in the database, which includes natural, historic and Indigenous places.

Lists covered by the database are:

• the World Heritage List, places that are of outstanding universal value and have been included on this United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO
  UNESCO
  The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
  
  ) managed list.
• the National Heritage List
  Commonwealth National Heritage List
  In 2004, a new heritage management system was introduced by the Commonwealth Government to protect Australia’s heritage places. Key elements are amendments to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 , which include explicit requirements for cultural heritage protection,...
  
  , a long list of natural, historic and Indigenous places that are of outstanding national heritage value to the Australian nation.
• the Commonwealth Heritage List, a list of natural, historic and Indigenous places of heritage significance owned or controlled by the Australian Government.
• the Register of the National Estate
  Register of the National Estate
  The Register of the National Estate is a listing of natural and cultural heritage places in Australia. The listing was initially compiled between 1976 and 2003 by the Australian Heritage Commission. The register is now maintained by the Australian Heritage Council...
  
  , a list of natural, historic Indigenous heritage places throughout Australia, frozen in February 2007 but to be replaced by other heritage lists by 2012.
• the Australian National Shipwreck Database
  Australian National Shipwreck Database
  The Australian National Shipwreck Database is an online, searchable database of over 7,000 known shipwrecks around the coast of Australia. Originally developed by the Australasian Institute of Maritime Archaeology, it is now maintained by the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the...
  
  , a register of historic shipwrecks in Australian waters, administered by The Department of the Environment and Water Resources.
• the List of Overseas Places of Historic Significance(LOPHSA), a list which recognises symbolically sites of outstanding historic significance to Australia that are located outside of the Australian jurisdiction.
• other places being considered for listing in one of these lists.
• photographs of listed places from the Australian Heritage Photographic Library.