The Sydney Opera House – World Heritage site and popular movie location
Peter Lewis, ABC News, reports
The Sydney Opera House looks likely to obtain World Heritage listing this week when international delegates meet in Christchurch, New Zealand, to consider adding it to the register of sites.
There has been a sea change in attitudes towards World Heritage listing since the battles in the 1980s over the Tasmanian wilderness and Queensland's wet tropics.
They are now among Australia's 16 sites of natural and cultural significance.
Also on the list - the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru, the Blue Mountains and Melbourne's Royal Exhibition Building.
UNESCO's director of World Heritage Francesco Bandarin says this week the 21-country committee will hear 45 proposals for listing alongside 830 sites including the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal and Mt Everest.
He rates Sydney's Opera House a strong chance, calling it an icon of world architecture.
The Sydney Opera House has appeared in several movies and television shows.
In the Cheryl Ladd television movie Now and Forever (1983), Ian Clarke (Robert Coleby) is having lunch at a café next to the Sydney Opera House when he is befriended by a woman who buys him a drink. Little does he know about Margaret Burton’s (Christine Amor) past and the trap she is luring him into.
The iconic building was also featured in Panic at Rock Island (2011), The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), Mission Impossible 2 (2000), Looking for Alibrandi (2000), One Night Stand (1984), and Starstruck (1982). More recently, the Opera House forecourt hosted the taping of Oprah’s Ultimate Australian Adventure (2011).
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