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Dorset and East Devon Coast
The cliff outcrops along the Dorset and East Devon coasts provide an almost continuous sequence of rock formations spanning the Mesozoic Era, about 185 million years of Earth's history. The region's important fossil sites and typical coastal landform features have contributed to the study of Earth history for over 300 years.
Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast
The Giant's Causeway is located at the foot of basalt cliffs on the coast at the edge of the Antrim Plateau in Northern Ireland. It consists of approximately 40,000 huge black basalt columns that protrude from the sea. This spectacular sight has inspired legends of giants crossing the sea to reach Scotland. Geological studies of these formations over the past 300 years have greatly advanced the development of earth science and have shown that this striking landscape was created by volcanic activity in the Tertiary Period, approximately 50-60 million years ago.
Island of Gorée
Gorée Island is located off the coast of Senegal, across the sea from Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave trading center on the African coast. The island was ruled by Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain and France, and its architecture is characterized by the contrast between the gloomy slave quarters and the elegant houses of the slave traders. Today, it remains a relic of human exploitation and a refuge for reconciliation.
Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
The remains of trading posts built between 1482 and 1786 can still be seen between Keita and Bein on the Ghanaian coast. They were the link between the trade routes established by the Portuguese in many parts of the world during the Age of Maritime Exploration.
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
The site consists of several protected areas, mainly located along the Great Escarpment on the east coast of Australia. The outstanding geological features around the shield crater and the large number of rare and endangered rainforest species are of international significance for science and conservation.
Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
The Ligurian coast, between the Cinque Terre and Portovenere, is a cultural landscape of great beauty and cultural value. The layout and arrangement of the towns and the shaping of the surrounding landscape, which overcome the drawbacks of the steep and uneven terrain, condense the continuous history of human settlement in this area over the past thousand years.
High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago
The Kvarken Archipelago (Finland) and the High Coast (Sweden) are located in the Gulf of Bothnia, a northern extension of the Baltic Sea. The 5,600 islands of the Kvarken Archipelago feature distinctive ridged washboard moraines, the "De Geer Moraine", formed by the melting of the continental ice sheet between 10,000 and 24,000 years ago. The archipelago has been rising from the sea in a process of rapid glacial isostatic uplift, where land previously depressed by the weight of glaciers has risen at the highest rate in the world. As a result, islands have emerged and connected, peninsulas have expanded, and lakes have evolved from bays into marshes and peat bogs. The High Coast has also been greatly affected by the combined processes of glaciation, glacial retreat, and the emergence of new land from the sea. Since the last retreat of glaciers from the High Coast 9,600 years ago, uplift has reached 285 meters, the highest known "rebound". The site provides an excellent opportunity to understand important processes that form glacial and terrestrial uplift zones on the Earth's surface.
My Son Sanctuary
Between the 4th and 13th centuries AD, a unique culture developed on the coast of modern-day Vietnam, with spiritual roots in Hinduism. This is vividly illustrated by the remains of an impressive series of pagodas, located on a striking site that served as the religious and political capital of the Champa Kingdom for much of its existence.