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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (T)

Jay T USA - 05-Oct-24

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (T)

Okefenokee, the land of trembling earth. Or perhaps etymologically, "bubbling water". Either origin describes this swamp well -- a land of peat and springs which serves as the headwaters for two rivers at the north end of the Florida peninsula. The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is aiming for inscription on the World Heritage Site list in 2026, so in July 2023 I took a trip down to southern Georgia to see what makes the swamp unique, especially in relation to the Everglades in neighboring Florida.

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Jodrell Bank Observatory

Jay T USA - 30-Dec-23

Jodrell Bank Observatory

I couldn't very well leave 2023 on an odd number of World Heritage Sites, so I took my car out for a two and a half hour drive today to the nearest World Heritage Site I had yet to visit: Jodrell Bank Observatory. The United Kingdom is replete with astronomical-associated World Heritage Sites, with perhaps the most complete range across history of any country, from Stonehenge and Avebury in the Neolithic, to Maritime Greenwich's Royal Observatory in the 18th and 19th centuries, to Jodrell Bank Observatory covering the mid to late 20th century. But the history of the site has been well-documented in other reviews, so I won't repeat it here. What's new is the visitor center, which opened in 2022, so I'll speak to that.

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Redwood

Jay T USA - 25-Dec-22

Redwood

O Mammutbaum, o Mammutbaum! How towering are your branches. The giant redwoods are truly majestic trees, and the Redwood National and State Parks in California are a superb location to admire the sheer size and beauty of these ancient evergreens. As referenced in other reviews, this World Heritage Site consists of Redwood National Park, as well as Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek state parks. A drive along the California coast on Route 101 between Eureka and Crescent City will take one right through the heart of these protected groves; it is an extremely memorable experience.

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Gwaii Haanas (T)

Jay T USA - 30-Sep-22

Gwaii Haanas (T)

Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site, located on the southern islands of Haida Gwaii, is a proposed extension to SG̱ang Gwaay, a World Heritage Site marking the cultural heritage of the Haida people who live throughout Haida Gwaii. I have to say right off that I am in favor of such an extension, since the Haida are letting SG̱ang Gwaay return to nature, which means that the remarkable memorial and mortuary poles there will one day be only memories.

What would an extension provide from a cultural perspective? Well, in addition to SG̱ang Gwaay, Gwaii Haanas includes four other Watchmen sites: villages with resident Haida interpreters who live on site during [...]

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SGang Gwaay

Jay T USA - 07-Sep-22

SGang Gwaay

The poles are still standing. It has been over fifteen years since the last review of SG̱ang Gwaay, but the remarkably carved memorial and mortuary poles that led to this site being inscribed on the World Heritage Site are still in place. Weathering and decay are taking their natural toll on the village, as the fine details on the poles continue to fade. As far as the Haida people who populate the islands of Haida Gwaii are concerned, however, this is an expected part of life and should not be prevented.

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Country
USA
Most Impressive
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
Proposal
Badlands National Park: A North American Prairie
Rating Stats
Iguacu 5
Petra 5
Rome 5
Uluru 5
Acropolis 4.5
Nikko 4.5
Pompei 4.5
Redwood 4.5
Toledo 4.5
Valletta 4.5
Wadi Rum 4.5
Brugge 4
Quito 4
Rhodes 4
Siena 4
Sintra 4
Vienna 4
Ibiza 3.5
Olympia 3.5
Split 3.5
Al Ain 3
Belem 3
Naples 3
Kotor 2.5
Lima 2.5
Evora 2
  1. Jodrell Bank Observatory
  2. Redwood
  3. SGang Gwaay
  4. Moravian Church Settlements
  5. Skogskyrkogarden
  6. Santo Domingo
  7. Zacatecas
  8. Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
  9. Moravian Church Settlements
  10. Cahokia Mounds
  11. Yellowstone
  12. Valparaiso
  13. Stoclet House
  14. Rhodes
  15. Archaeological Site of Delphi
  16. Villa d'Este
  17. Tower of Hercules
  18. Segovia
  19. Rapa Nui
  20. Olympic National Park
  21. Machu Picchu
  22. Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
  23. Etruscan Necropolises
  24. Carlsbad Caverns
  25. Bamberg
  26. Würzburg Residence
  27. Valletta
  28. St. Petersburg
  29. Roman Walls of Lugo
  30. Popocatepetl monasteries
  31. Mount Etna
  32. Luis Barragán House and Studio
  33. Gulf of Porto
  34. El Escurial
  35. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
  36. Aranjuez
  37. Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
  38. Toledo
  39. Santiago de Compostela
  40. Potsdam
  41. Neolithic Orkney
  42. Lima
  43. Gwynedd Castles
  44. Dorset and East Devon Coast
  45. Burgos Cathedral
  46. Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
  47. Vizcaya Bridge
  48. Statue of Liberty
  49. Route of Santiago de Compostela
  50. Pompei
  51. Las Medulas
  52. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
  53. Flemish Béguinages
  54. Camino Real
  55. Works of Antoni Gaudí
  56. Speyer Cathedral
  57. Plantin-Moretus Museum
  58. Lake Baikal
  59. Gros Morne National Park
  60. Dinosaur Provincial Park
  61. Brugge
  62. White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
  63. Thingvellir
  64. Huascaran National Park
  65. Poverty Point
  66. Pitons Management Area
  67. Mesa Verde
  68. Joggins Fossil Cliffs
  69. Grand Place, Brussels
  70. Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
  71. Belfries
  72. Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
  73. Split
  74. Quito
  75. Greater Blue Mountains
  76. Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
  77. Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
  78. Skocjan Caves
  79. Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
  80. La Fortaleza and San Juan
  81. Grand Pré
  82. Botanical Garden, Padua
  83. White City of Tel-Aviv
  84. Tombs of Buganda Kings
  85. San Antonio Missions
  86. Olympia
  87. Kotor
  88. Great Smoky Mountains
  89. Colonia del Sacramento
  90. Antigua Naval Dockyard
  91. Venetian Works of Defence
  92. Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
  93. Petra
  94. Kinderdijk
  95. Galapagos Islands
  96. Budapest
  97. Wet Tropics of Queensland
  98. Sangay National Park
  99. Paris, Banks of the Seine
  100. Kremlin and Red Square
  101. Great Barrier Reef
  102. Brú na Bóinne
  103. Westminster
  104. Sintra
  105. Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
  106. Kew Gardens
  107. Göreme NP and Cappadocia
  108. Blenheim Palace
  109. Wadi Rum
  110. Singapore Botanic Gardens
  111. Old City of Jerusalem
  112. Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
  113. Giant's Causeway
  114. Biblical Tells
  115. Vienna
  116. Schönbrunn
  117. Morne Trois Pitons
  118. Ironbridge Gorge
  119. Fortifications of Vauban
  120. Belem
  121. Versailles
  122. Siena
  123. Old Town Lunenburg
  124. L'Anse aux Meadows
  125. Forth Bridge
  126. Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
  127. Venice and its Lagoon
  128. San Marino and Mount Titano
  129. Nubian Monuments
  130. Independence Hall
  131. Florence
  132. Ayutthaya
  133. Vatican City
  134. Salzburg
  135. Novodevichy Convent
  136. Iguazu National Park
  137. Evora
  138. Ancient Thebes
  139. Um er-Rasas
  140. Rome
  141. New Lanark
  142. Iguacu
  143. Everglades
  144. Australian Convict Sites
  145. Upper Middle Rhine Valley
  146. Royal Exhibition Building
  147. Nikko
  148. Istanbul
  149. Frontiers of the Roman Empire
  150. Amsterdam Canal Ring
  151. Uluru
  152. Rietveld Schröderhuis
  153. Naples
  154. Ibiza
  155. Edinburgh
  156. Al Ain
  157. Turaif Quarter
  158. Rideau Canal
  159. Ephesus
  160. Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
  161. Historic Cairo
  162. Acropolis
  163. Tower of London
  164. Quseir Amra
  165. Mont-Saint-Michel
  166. Hawaii Volcanoes
  167. Costiera Amalfitana
  168. Yosemite National Park
  169. Tongariro National Park
  170. Québec
  171. Monticello
  172. Hierapolis-Pamukkale
  173. Dutch Water Defence Lines
  1. Amalienborg and its district (T)
  2. Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
  3. Arbel (arbel, nebe shueb, horns of hittim) (T)
  4. Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
  5. Bet She'an (T)
  6. Birkenhead Park, the pioneering People’s Park (T)
  7. Brooklyn Bridge (T)
  8. Caesarea (T)
  9. California Current Conservation Complex (T)
  10. Capital Fortifications of Hanyang : Hangyangdoseong Capital City Wall, Bukhansanseong Mountain Fortress and Tangchundaeseong Defense Wall (T)
  11. Casablanca, Ville du XXème siécle, carrefour d'influences (T)
  12. Central Park (T)
  13. Centre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
  14. Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
  15. City of York: historic urban core (T)
  16. Dahshour archaeological area (T)
  17. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
  18. Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
  19. Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
  20. Early Synagogues in the Galilee (T)
  21. East Atlantic Flyway: England East Coast Wetlands (T)
  22. Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
  23. Ellis Island (T)
  24. Gwaii Haanas (T)
  25. Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
  26. Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
  27. Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento (T)
  28. Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
  29. Khor Dubai (T)
  30. Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
  31. La Moneda Palace (T)
  32. Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece (T)
  33. Le champ de bataille de Waterloo, la fin de l’épopée napoléonienne (T)
  34. Le Panorama de la Bataille de Waterloo, exemple particulièrement significatif de « Phénomène de Panoramas » (T)
  35. Les citadelles mosanes (T)
  36. Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
  37. Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
  38. Leuven/Louvain, batiments universitaires, l'héritage de six siècles au sein du centre historique (T)
  39. Manama, City of Trade, Multiculturalism and Religious Coexistence (T)
  40. Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
  41. Modernist Centre of Gdynia — the example of building an integrated community (T)
  42. Mount Vernon (T)
  43. Napier Art Deco historic precinct (T)
  44. Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (T)
  45. Olympic Park Munich (T)
  46. Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
  47. Pombaline Lisbon (T)
  48. Primeros Ingenios Coloniales Azucareros de América (T)
  49. QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (T)
  50. Rade de Marseille (T)
  51. Route of Magellan (T)
  52. Salt Mines of Maras (T)
  53. Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
  54. Serpent Mound (T)
  55. Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
  56. Soufriere-Scott’s Head Marine Reserve (T)
  57. St. George Fortified System (T)
  58. St. George Historic District (T)
  59. Svalbard Archipelago (T)
  60. The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
  61. The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles (T)
  62. The Lofoten islands (T)
  63. The Ribeira Sacra, Lugo and Orense (T)
  64. The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
  65. The Turf House Tradition (T)
  66. Thingvellir National Park (T)
  67. Thomas Jefferson Buildings (T)
  68. Triple-arch Gate at Dan & Sources of the Jordan (T)
  69. Via Francigena in Italy (T)
  70. VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
  71. Waitangi Treaty Grounds (T)
  72. White Sands National Monument (T)

Top 200 WHS

  1. Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
  2. Koutammakou
  3. Timbuktu
  4. Alto Douro
  5. Olympia
  6. Acropolis
  7. Ephesus
  8. Pompei
  9. Baalbek
  10. Leptis Magna
  11. Syracuse
  12. Aleppo
  13. Medina of Marrakesh
  14. Medina of Fez
  15. Samarkand
  16. Hué
  17. Potala Palace
  18. Borobudur
  19. Bamiyan Valley
  20. Taj Mahal
  21. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
  22. Aachen Cathedral
  23. Lalibela
  24. Meteora
  25. Vatican City
  26. Saint Catherine Area
  27. Mont-Saint-Michel
  28. Route of Santiago de Compostela
  29. Qadisha Valley
  30. Chartres Cathedral
  31. Luther Memorials
  32. Abbey of St Gall
  33. Westminster
  34. Sydney Opera House
  35. Kremlin and Red Square
  36. Kinderdijk
  37. Cliff of Bandiagara
  38. Great Zimbabwe
  39. Meroe
  40. Ouro Preto
  41. Québec
  42. Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
  43. Santo Domingo
  44. Old Havana
  45. Coffee Cultural Landscape
  46. Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
  47. Tequila
  48. Costiera Amalfitana
  49. Loire Valley
  50. Upper Middle Rhine Valley
  51. Rio de Janeiro
  52. Grand Pré
  53. Air and Téneré
  54. El Pinacate
  55. Wadi Rum
  56. Namib Sand Sea
  57. Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
  58. Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
  59. Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
  60. Pyramids (Memphis)
  61. Nubian Monuments
  62. Göreme NP and Cappadocia
  63. Grand Canyon
  64. Uluru
  65. Ironbridge Gorge
  66. Ancient Kyoto
  67. Gyeongju
  68. Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
  69. Virunga National Park
  70. Galapagos Islands
  71. Banc d'Arguin
  72. Ngorongoro
  73. Serengeti
  74. Keoladeo National Park
  75. Cape Floral Region
  76. Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
  77. Rainforests of the Atsinanana
  78. Dja Faunal Reserve
  79. Glacier parks
  80. Yosemite National Park
  81. Los Glaciares
  82. Laponian Area
  83. Gros Morne National Park
  84. Chola Temples
  85. Fujisan
  86. Sub-Antarctic Islands
  87. Meidan Emam, Esfahan
  88. Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
  89. South China Karst
  90. Gunung Mulu
  91. Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
  92. Skocjan Caves
  93. Carlsbad Caverns
  94. Cuzco
  95. West Norwegian Fjords
  96. Gulf of California
  97. Te Wahipounamu
  98. Great Barrier Reef
  99. Socotra Archipelago
  100. Brazilian Atlantic Islands
  101. Maritime Greenwich
  102. Valparaiso
  103. Granada
  104. Kraków
  105. Brugge
  106. Seville
  107. Strasbourg
  108. Auschwitz Birkenau
  109. Genbaku Dome
  110. Statue of Liberty
  111. Bikini Atoll
  112. Independence Hall
  113. Gwynedd Castles
  114. Himeji-jo
  115. Great Wall
  116. Masada
  117. Forts and Castles Gold Coast
  118. Red Fort
  119. Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
  120. Potosi
  121. Guanajuato
  122. Sewell Mining Town
  123. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
  124. Sagarmatha National Park
  125. Kilimanjaro National Park
  126. Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
  127. Western Ghats
  128. Huascaran National Park
  129. Samarra
  130. Persepolis
  131. Petra
  132. Al Ain
  133. Rapa Nui
  134. Imperial Palace
  135. Versailles
  136. Changdeokgung Palace Complex
  137. Wartburg Castle
  138. Dorset and East Devon Coast
  139. Classical Gardens of Suzhou
  140. Potsdam
  141. Carthage
  142. Tyre
  143. Amsterdam Canal Ring
  144. Florence
  145. St. Petersburg
  146. Dubrovnik
  147. Paris, Banks of the Seine
  148. Budapest
  149. Vienna
  150. Valletta
  151. SGang Gwaay
  152. Mesa Verde
  153. Machu Picchu
  154. Chan Chan
  155. Teotihuacan
  156. Tikal National Park
  157. Chichen-Itza
  158. Cahokia Mounds
  159. Stonehenge
  160. Nasca Lines
  161. Tasmanian Wilderness
  162. Works of Antoni Gaudí
  163. Kenya Lake System
  164. Pantanal
  165. Victoria Falls
  166. Lake Baikal
  167. Okavango Delta
  168. Iguazu National Park
  169. Plitvice Lakes
  170. Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
  171. Everglades
  172. Angkor
  173. Ayutthaya
  174. Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
  175. Qhapaq Ñan
  176. Island of Gorée
  177. Venice and its Lagoon
  178. Istanbul
  179. Rome
  180. Mexico City and Xochimilco
  181. Damascus
  182. Old City of Jerusalem
  183. Prague
  184. Stone Town of Zanzibar
  185. Edinburgh
  186. Salzburg
  187. Old City of Acre
  188. Walled City of Baku
  189. Cordoba
  190. Shibam
  191. Brasilia
  192. Thingvellir
  193. L'Anse aux Meadows
  194. Isole Eolie
  195. Hawaii Volcanoes
  196. Yellowstone
  197. Volcanoes of Kamchatka
  198. Giant's Causeway
  199. Tongariro National Park
  200. Pitons Management Area