My adventure began at Pohnpei Airport on a Saturday late afternoon, stepping off the famous United Island Hopper with my sights set on Nan Madol tomorrow. The plan was simple: …
Frederik Dawson
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My most impressive site: Rapa Nui, Yellowstone
My proposal for a new site: Royal palaces and temples in Bangkok / Engineering Feats of Niagara Falls / Panama Canal / Haussmann's Paris
Recent Visits
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10May 19, 2025Nan Madol
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10April 21, 2025Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
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50March 7, 2025Bryggen, Rjukan / Notodden, Røros, Urnes Stave Church, West Norwegian Fjords
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About Frederik Dawson
- Member since
- June 2006
- Country of Origin
- Netherlands
Visits
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- #60
- WHS
- 491
- Tentative Sites
- 107
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- Reviews
- 250
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Teotihuacan 5.0
- Gunung Mulu 5.0
- Te Wahipounamu 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Dolomites 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.5
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.5
- Rock Islands 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Uxmal 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.5
- Chichen-Itza 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Siena 4.5
- Ellora Caves 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Mesa Verde 4.5
- Redwood 4.5
- Machu Picchu 4.5
- Nasca Lines 4.5
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Bukhara 4.5
- Samarkand 4.5
- Grand Canyon 4.5
- Glacier parks 4.5
- Wulingyuan 4.5
- Imperial Palace 4.5
- Sukhothai 4.5
- Prambanan 4.5
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.5
- Borobudur 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Ajanta Caves 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.5
- Cordoba 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Plain of Jars 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Vézère Valley 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 4.0
- Sigiriya 4.0
- Polonnaruva 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Major Town Houses 4.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- Historic Cairo 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 4.0
- Bauhaus Sites 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Hué 4.0
- Dazu Rock Carvings 4.0
- Grand Canal 4.0
- Itchan Kala 4.0
- Ujung Kulon National Park 4.0
- Great Wall 4.0
- Ayutthaya 4.0
- Churches of Peace 4.0
- Bali Subak system 4.0
- Kinabalu Park 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Taj Mahal 4.0
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4.0
- Tugendhat Villa 4.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 4.0
- Longmen Grottoes 4.0
- Chan Chan 4.0
- Cuzco 4.0
- Fatehpur Sikri 4.0
- Cesky Krumlov 4.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.0
- Chaco Culture 4.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 4.0
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4.0
- Taos Pueblo 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Old Town of Lijiang 4.0
- Ping Yao 4.0
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 4.0
- Koh Ker 4.0
- South China Karst 4.0
- Summer Palace 4.0
- Temple of Heaven 4.0
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Lake District 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Sambor Prei Kuk 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Lyon 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4.0
- Causses and Cévennes 3.5
- Sydney Opera House 3.5
- Salzburg 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Preah Vihear Temple 3.5
- China Danxia 3.5
- Mount Wutai 3.5
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.5
- West Lake 3.5
- Yungang Grottoes 3.5
- Albi 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- Bourges Cathedral 3.5
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3.5
- Fontainebleau 3.5
- Nancy 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5
- Fujisan 3.5
- Genbaku Dome 3.5
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5
- Himeji-jo 3.5
- Kii Mountain Range 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 3.5
- Hoi An 3.5
- My Son 3.5
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang 3.5
- Trang An 3.5
- Western Tien-Shan 3.5
- Dong Phayayen - Khao Yai 3.5
- Quito 3.5
- Valparaiso 3.5
- Arequipa 3.5
- Manu National Park 3.5
- Mammoth Cave 3.5
- Statue of Liberty 3.5
- Genoa 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Agra Fort 3.5
- Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Western Ghats 3.5
- City of Luxembourg 3.5
- Kinderdijk 3.5
- Van Nellefabriek 3.5
- Bahla Fort 3.5
- Tubbataha Reefs 3.5
- Belem 3.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5
- Monastery of Batalha 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Aachen Cathedral 3.5
- Bamberg 3.5
- Lübeck 3.5
- Luther Memorials 3.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Trier 3.5
- Wartburg Castle 3.5
- Puebla 3.5
- Tongariro National Park 3.5
- Visby 3.5
- Anuradhapura 3.5
- Bellinzone 3.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.5
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- Stonehenge 3.5
- Avila 3.5
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Salamanca 3.5
- Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- Valletta 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5
- Everglades 3.5
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.5
- Yogyakarta 3.5
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 3.5
- Olympic National Park 3.5
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.5
- Alto Douro 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Mystras 3.5
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5
- Corfu 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra 3.5
- Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto 3.5
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.5
- Yakushima 3.5
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 3.5
- Urnes Stave Church 3.5
- Nan Madol 3.5
- FRIM Selangor 3.5
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Camino Real 3.0
- Horyu-ji Area 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Sian Ka'an 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Drottningholm 3.0
- Southern Öland 3.0
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.0
- Central Highlands 3.0
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3.0
- Old Town of Galle 3.0
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.0
- Hahoe and Yangdong 3.0
- Sinharaja Forest 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Old City of Berne 3.0
- Haeinsa Temple 3.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3.0
- Gyeongju 3.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.0
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.0
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.0
- Saint-Emilion 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Bryggen 3.0
- Studley Royal Park 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Cambodian Memorial Sites 3.0
- Niah Caves 3.0
- Beijing Central Axis 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- Champagne 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Ban Chiang 3.0
- Novgorod 3.0
- Novodevichy Convent 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.0
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 3.0
- Luang Prabang 3.0
- Jeju 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Kaiping Diaolou 3.0
- Litomysl Castle 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Imperial Tombs 3.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3.0
- Pimachiowin Aki 3.0
- Cuenca 3.0
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3.0
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 3.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Phu Phrabat 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Epidaurus 3.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Hawaii Volcanoes 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 3.0
- Amami-Oshima Island 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Kaeng Krachan Forest 3.0
- Wadden Sea 3.0
- Pearling 3.0
- Burgundy 3.0
- Røros 3.0
- Vézelay 3.0
- Semmering Railway 3.0
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 3.0
- Darien National Park 3.0
- Willemstad 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Guanacaste 3.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.0
- León Cathedral 3.0
- Joya de Ceren 3.0
- Elephanta Caves 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- Huascaran National Park 3.0
- Jantar Mantar 3.0
- Qutb Minar 3.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 3.0
- Pannonhalma 3.0
- Sangay National Park 3.0
- Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Gaya Tumuli 3.0
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Si Thep 3.0
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 3.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Cold winter deserts of Turan 3.0
- Shiretoko 3.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.0
- Paphos 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Stralsund and Wismar 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.5
- Aranjuez 2.5
- Papahanaumokuakea 2.5
- Ivrea 2.5
- Choirokoitia 2.5
- Namhansanseong 2.5
- Vat Phou 2.5
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5
- Shakhrisyabz 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 2.5
- Butrint 2.5
- Thingvellir 2.5
- Thang Long 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Surtsey 2.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Panamá 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Yaroslavl 2.5
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo 2.5
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.5
- Kronborg Castle 2.5
- Via Appia 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 2.5
- Longobards in Italy 2.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5
- Stone Spheres of the Diquís 2.5
- San Antonio Missions 2.5
- Aflaj irrigation system 2.5
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 2.5
- Classical Weimar 2.5
- Ruins of León Viejo 2.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5
- Baroque Churches 2.5
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5
- Cologne Cathedral 2.5
- Kutna Hora 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.5
- Völklingen Ironworks 2.5
- Guimarães 2.5
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.5
- Cahokia Mounds 2.5
- The Four Lifts 2.5
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 2.5
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 2.5
- Telc 2.5
- Monastery of Alcobaça 2.5
- Baekje Historic Areas 2.5
- Mafra 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
- Zollverein 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
- Hiraizumi 2.5
- Royal Joseon Tombs 2.5
- Rjukan / Notodden 2.5
- Keoladeo National Park 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Jongmyo Shrine 2.5
- Evora 2.5
- Red Fort 2.5
- Kandy 2.5
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 2.0
- Petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream 2.0
- Lenggong Valley 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Trebic 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Lower German Limes 2.0
- Heritage of Mercury 2.0
- Danube Limes 2.0
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 2.0
- New Lanark 2.0
- Poverty Point 2.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.0
- Rhaetian Railway 2.0
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 2.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Holy Trinity Column 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Dilmun Burial Mounds 2.0
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 2.0
- Tusi Sites 2.0
- Stevns Klint 2.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Okinoshima Island 2.0
- The Prosecco Hills 2.0
- Australian Convict Sites 2.0
- Shirakami-Sanchi 2.0
- Holasovice 2.0
- Par force hunting landscape 2.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.0
- Corvey 2.0
- Karlskrona 2.0
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.0
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.5
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 1.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5
- Royal Exhibition Building 1.5
- Schokland 1.0
Tentative Sites
- 492 2
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Reviews by Frederik Dawson


FRIM Selangor (Inscribed)
FRIM Selangor
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Naumburg Cathedral (Inscribed)
Naumburg Cathedral
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Petroglyphs along the Banguch… (Inscribed)
Petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream
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Butrint (Inscribed)
Butrint
Last summer, I decided to explore Butrint, a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its deep historical roots and ancient ruins. Nestled near the southern coast and close to the …

Olympia (Inscribed)
Olympia
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Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysa… (Inscribed)
Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
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Cambodian Memorial Sites (Inscribed)
Cambodian Memorial Sites
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Yen Tu (Nominated)
Yen Tu
On my flight from Rach Gia back to Ho Chi Minh City after Oc Eo sightseeing with ICOMOS experts, I found an interesting inflight magazine article about Yen Tu. After …

Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage … (Inscribed)
Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto
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Epidaurus (Inscribed)
Epidaurus
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Oc Eo (Nominated)
Oc Eo
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The Site of Angkor Borei and … (On tentative list)
The Site of Angkor Borei and Phnom Da
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Paphos (Inscribed)
Paphos
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Niah Caves (Inscribed)
Niah Caves
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Dazu Rock Carvings (Inscribed)
Dazu Rock Carvings
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South China Karst (Inscribed)
South China Karst
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Ivrea (Inscribed)
Ivrea
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Gaya Tumuli (Inscribed)
Gaya Tumuli
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Alto Douro (Inscribed)
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