for both publicly (both Imperial and Colonial) and privately owned explosives. As an island isolated in Sydney Harbour, Goat Island during the Sydney Harbour Trust/ Maritime Services Board periods provided a place for accommodation, work, as a shipyard and operational depot and recreation for a variety of people for a period of over ninety years. It is of local significance for the people who lived and worked on the island and of regional significance for what it can tell us of the living conditions of the people who lived and worked on the island in the 20th century. The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. The research and historical archaeological potential of Goat Island are high. It has been continuously occupied since 1833. It has the ability to demonstrate the layering of use and occupation over a period of 150 years, including those earlier facilities that were adapted for later functions. Surviving physical evidence can demonstrate the life styles and working conditions of a diverse range of occupants and staff on the island, during all phases of development from Pre-European to the late 20th-century activities of the Maritime Services Board. The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. The architectural qualities of the early stone buildings on the island are remarkable and rare. The Queen's Magazine with its barrel vault, massive external buttressing and carefully detailed ventilation system, is the finest and earliest large powder magazine. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales. The facilities on the island are representative of the maritime industrial activities that were once common around the inner harbour and the Parramatta River. The variety of cultural and landscape forms and plantings on the island are representative of the period. See also Sydney Heads Sydney Harbour National Park References Bibliography Attribution External links Goat Island, Sydney Harbour from the National Parks and Wildlife Service. New South Wales State Heritage Register Former military installations in New South Wales Museums in New South Wales Shipyards of New South Wales Gardens in New South Wales Industrial buildings in New South Wales Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register Islands of Sydney Sydney Harbour Sydney localities