State Heritage Convention

Dr Michael McCarthy
Curator Maritime Archaeology Department
Western Australian Maritime Museum
"Heritage at sea and abroad"

Apart from the many shipwrecks, submerged Aboriginal sites, sunken aircraft,
abandoned jetties, port-related structures, occasional homestead and
terrestrial maritime structures that remain preserved in our local waters,
there are elements of our heritage in other seas.

This paper will briefly touch on the holistic management of the
submerged and terrestrial maritime heritage on our shores and it will also
comment on two important elements of the Western Australian maritime
heritage in the Atlantic, HM Ship Roebuck (1701) at Ascension Island and the
French exploration corvette L'Uranie (1820) and an adjacent land camp in
the Falkland Islands. These sites were examined by a team from the Western
Australian Maritime Museum in March 2001 as part of a program designed to
search for and examine two of the most important elements of Western
Australia's maritime heritage overseas.