Australia - Australian Cornish Mining Sites: Burra and Moonta

Australian Cornish Mining Sites: Burra and Moonta is located on the traditional lands of the Ngadjuri and Narungga peoples, respectively, who occupied these lands for thousands of years prior to European settlement and dispossession from the nineteenth century. Burra and Moonta figure in their oral traditions and in European contemporary written records and illustrations, while their culture is tangibly expressed in the wider landscape.

Australian Cornish Mining Sites: Burra and Moonta is a serial cultural landscape nomination of two component parts located in the Mid-North region of the state of South Australia, Australia. Both are historic ‘Cornish’ copper mining landscapes in comparatively remote country, separated by around 130 km: Burra State Heritage Area in the Mount Lofty Ranges (in the east), and Moonta Mines State Heritage Area on the plains of the Yorke Peninsula (in the west), a little over 3 km from the Spencer Gulf. Burra is located around 160 km NNE of the State capital Adelaide, and Moonta around 160 km NNW of Adelaide.