Riversleigh World Heritage Area
Riversleigh World Heritage Area is Australia's most famous fossil location, recognised for the series of well preserved fossils deposited from the Late Oligocene to more recent geological periods.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Homestead
- Description: fossil site in Australia
- Also known as: “Australian Fossil Mammal Site (Riversleigh)”, “Australian Fossil Mammal Site: Riversleigh”, “Riversleigh”, and “Riversleigh: Australian Fossil Mammal Site”
Riversleigh World Heritage Area
- Categories: paleontological site and natural cultural heritage site
- Location: City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Vietnamese—“Riversleigh World Heritage Area” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Рыверслей і Наракорт”
- Catalan: “Riversleigh”
- Chinese: “里弗斯利”
- Croatian: “Riversleigh”
- Czech: “Riversleigh”
- Danish: “Riversleigh”
- Dutch: “Riversleigh”
- French: “Riversleigh”
- Georgian: “რივერსლეი”
- German: “Australian Fossil Mammal Site: Riversleigh”
- German: “Riversleigh: Australian Fossil Mammal Site”
- German: “Riversleigh”
- Hebrew: “ריברסליי”
- Hungarian: “Riversleigh”
- Indonesian: “Riversleigh”
- Italian: “Riversleigh”
- Japanese: “リバースレイ”
- Lithuanian: “Riverslėjus”
- Malayalam: “റിവേഴ്സ്ലീ”
- Maltese: “Riversleigh”
- Mongolian: “Риверслэй”
- Nepali: “रिभर्सलिघ”
- Persian: “ریورزلی”
- Polish: “Australian Fossil Mammal Site: Riversleigh”
- Polish: “Riversleigh Fossil Mammal Site”
- Polish: “Riversleigh: Australian Fossil Mammal Site”
- Polish: “Riversleigh”
- Portuguese: “Riversleigh”
- Russian: “Риверслей”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Riversleigh”
- Spanish: “Riversleigh”
- Turkish: “Riversleigh”
- Ukrainian: “Ріверслей”
- Vietnamese: “Riversleigh”
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