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	Australia - Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens (2004)

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	Australia World Heritage Sites
	- Great Barrier Reef (1981) - Kakadu National Park (1981, 1987, 1992)
	- Fraser Island (1992) - Willandra Lakes Region (1981) - Lord Howe Island Group (1982)
	- Tasmanian Wilderness (1982, 1989) - Gondwana Rainforest of Australia (1987, 1994)
	- Uluru-Kata Tiuta National Park (1987, 1994) - Wet Tropics of Queensland (1988)
	- Shark Bay, Western Australia (1991) - Heard and McDonald Islands (1997)
	- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte) (1994) - Macquarie Island (1997)
	- Greater Blue Mountains Area (2000) - Purnululu National Park (2003)
	- Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens (2004) - Sydney Opera House (2007)

The Royal Exhibition Building is located in Melbourne, Australia. It is located in the Carlton Gardens, at the north-eastern edge of the central business district. It was the first building in Australia to be awarded UNESCO World Heritage. It sits adjacent to the Melbourne Museum; and is the largest item in Museum Victoria's collection.

The Carlton Gardens is a World Heritage Site located on the northeastern edge of the Central Business District in the suburb of Carlton, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The 26 hectare (64 acre) site contains the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Museum and Imax Cinema, tennis courts and an award winning children's playground. The rectangular site is bound by Victoria Street, Rathdowne Street, Carlton Street, and Nicholson Street. From the Exhibition building the gardens gently slope down to the southwest and northeast. According to the World Heritage listing the Royal Exhibition Buildings and Carlton Gardens are "of historical, architectural, aesthetic, social and scientific (botanical) significance to the State of Victoria."

The gardens are an outstanding example of Victorian era landscape design with sweeping lawns and varied European and Australian tree plantings consisting of deciduous English oaks, White Poplar, Plane trees, Elms, Conifers, Cedars, Turkey Oaks, Araucarias and evergreens such as Moreton Bay Figs, combined with flower beds of annuals and shrubs. A network of tree lined paths provide formal avenues for highlighting the fountains and architecture of the Exhibition building. This includes the grand allee of plane trees that lead to the exhibition building. Two small ornamental lakes adorn the southern section of the park. The northern section contains the Museum, tennis courts, maintenance depot and curator's cottage, and the children's playground designed as a Victorian maze.

The gardens contain three important fountains: the Exhibition Fountain, designed for the 1880 Exhibition by sculptor Joseph Hochgurtel; the French Fountain; and the Westgarth Drinking Fountain.

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