UNESCO May 2015 Exclusive Heritage Issue Volume 1 | Page 2

‘Place of a

Lifetime’

’Just an hour’s flight from Sydney, Lord Howe is a subtropical
paradise and one of Australia’s most beautiful islands’ National
Geographic
National Geographic named Lord Howe as one of their 'Places of
a Lifetime'. Is It really that special?

Lord Howe Island is
one of the places
you have to go to
during your lifetime.
It became world
heritage in 1982 as
part of the Lord
Howe Island Group.
That
included
Admiralty Islands,
Mutton Bird Islands
and Ball’s Pyramid.

This site is one of a
kind because of how
it was originally
formed
and
its
topography.
These
islands were all made
by
underwater
volcanoes
2000
metres
deep
7
million years ago.
Lord Howe
island
has eroded so much

Lord Howe Island

that it is now only
one fortieth of its
original size. Lord
Howe Island is home
to what once was
the world’s most
rarest birds (the
flightless Lord Howe
Woodhen,Gallirallis
sylvestris) and the
world’s largest stick
insect.