Atlantic Ocean

Connected Sites: 57

WHS related to the Atlantic Ocean, where a. boundary of the core zone touches the Ocean coast (including the "tideway" of estuaries) OR b. OUV mentions the Atlantic Ocean "Marginal seas" that have their own connection take precedence over the connection with the Atlantic Ocean (elsewhere the Ocean is applied)

Connected Sites

  • Angra do Heroismo
    Inscribed: 1983
    3.06
    68
    6
  • Pico Island
    Pico Island
    Portugal
    Inscribed: 2004
    3.34
    58
    4
  • Laurisilva of Madeira
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.40
    117
    7
    Laurel forest is specific to the North Atlantic
  • Mazagan
    Mazagan
    Morocco
    Inscribed: 2004
    2.56
    98
    7
    "The fortification of Mazagan is situated on the Atlantic coast, about 90km south-west of Casablanca, and faces a natural bay of great beauty." (AB ev)
  • Salvador de Bahia
    Inscribed: 1985
    3.35
    74
    4
    "Founded in 1549 on a small peninsula that separates Todos os Santos Bay from the Atlantic Ocean on the northeast coast of Brazil," (official description)
  • Olinda
    Olinda
    Brazil
    Inscribed: 1982
    3.06
    46
    4
    "Founded in 1535 on hillsides overlooking the Atlantic Ocean on Brazil’s northeast coast" (OUV)
  • L'Anse aux Meadows
    Inscribed: 1978
    3.15
    63
    8
    At the Straight of Belle Isle, which is an outlet for the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the outlet of the North American Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. (OUV)
  • Island of Saint-Louis
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.07
    45
    2
    "only separated from the Atlantic Ocean to its west by the Langue de Barbarie, a 300 m (980 ft) wide sand spit." (wiki)
  • Robben Island
    Robben Island
    South Africa
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.63
    122
    9
  • Old Town Lunenburg
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.10
    101
    9
    Offshore Atlantic fishery
  • Tower of Hercules
    Inscribed: 2009
    2.67
    159
    5
  • Namib Sand Sea
    Inscribed: 2013
    4.08
    114
    4
  • Rio de Janeiro
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.62
    195
    6
    Rio de Janeiro is on the far western part of a strip of Brazil's Atlantic coast (wiki)
  • Rock Art of Alta
    Inscribed: 1985
    3.14
    81
    6
    In the Norwegian Sea (a marginal sea in the North Atlantic Ocean)
  • La Fortaleza and San Juan
    La Fortaleza and San Juan
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1983
    3.25
    121
    5
    At the Bay of San Juan, which opens into the Atlantic
  • Paramaribo
    Paramaribo
    Suriname
    Inscribed: 2002
    2.38
    42
    3
    At the Suriname River, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean a few kms downstream
  • St. George, Bermuda
    St. George, Bermuda
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.68
    35
    4
    At St. George's Harbour, open to the Atlantic Ocean at Gunner Bay
  • Valongo Wharf
    Inscribed: 2017
    1.15
    65
    5
    entry port of transatlantic slave trade
  • Anticosti
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.13
    6
    2
    Gulf of Saint Lawrence
  • Cidade Velha
    Cidade Velha
    Cabo Verde
    Inscribed: 2009
    1.92
    53
    3
    "testimony to its considerable role in international trade associated with the development of European colonial domination towards Africa and America and the birth of Atlantic triangular trade" (OUV)
  • Banc d'Arguin
    Banc d'Arguin
    Mauritania
    Inscribed: 1989
    2.32
    15
    2
    Part of the East Atlantic migratory flyway and faces the Atlantic. It was also part of the Atlantic trade route down the African coast
  • Saloum Delta
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.86
    38
    4
  • The Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa
    Inscribed: 2024
    1.59
    9
    3
    Pinnacle Point Site Complex buffer zone extends to the coastline and may be extended into the ocean
  • Peninsula Valdes
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.55
    58
    10
  • Kujataa
    Kujataa
    Denmark
    Inscribed: 2017
    2.76
    12
    3
  • Joggins Fossil Cliffs
    Inscribed: 2008
    2.77
    73
    8
    The cliffs are at the Bay of Fundy, which flows into the Gulf of Maine (a large gulf of the Atlantic Ocean).
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.16
    26
    3
  • Mistaken Point
    Inscribed: 2016
    3.41
    34
    7
  • Rabat
    Rabat
    Morocco
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.16
    212
    7
    The city is located on the Atlantic coast (AB ev)
  • Bijagos Archipelago
    Guinea-Bissau
    Inscribed: 2025
    5
    1
  • Bijagos Archipelago
    Guinea-Bissau
    Inscribed: 2025
    5
    1
  • Megaliths of Carnac
    Inscribed: 2025
    3.10
    72
    5
    "The monumental stone structures of different types (...) testify to the occupation of the European Atlantic Coast by societies that developed a complex relationship to their natural environment." The boundaries of the core zone border the Atlantic Ocean. (AB Ev)
  • The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.80
    104
    6
    Extends to the coast of the Irish Sea, a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean
  • Teide National Park
    Inscribed: 2007
    3.83
    190
    7
    Teide Volcano is the highest point in the Atlantic Ocean
  • Surtsey
    Surtsey
    Iceland
    Inscribed: 2008
    2.72
    43
    9
  • St. Kilda
    St. Kilda
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.50
    26
    4
  • Sceilg Mhichíl
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.82
    90
    8
    "The World Heritage property boundary is drawn tightly to the island, with a buffer zone formed naturally by the Atlantic Ocean." (Integrity statement)
  • São Luis
    Inscribed: 1997
    2.72
    37
    5
    "The city is located on Upaon-açu Island (Big Island, in Tupi Language) or Ilha de São Luís (Saint Louis' Island), in the Baía de São Marcos (Saint Mark's Bay), an extension of the Atlantic Ocean which forms the estuary of Pindaré, Mearim, Itapecuru and other rivers." (wiki)
  • Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
    Inscribed: 2013
    2.58
    44
    6
  • Oporto
    Oporto
    Portugal
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.87
    382
    11
    Located at the mouth of the Douro at the Atlantic Ocean
  • Medina of Essaouira
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.15
    183
    6
    Atlantic sea port
  • Lençóis Maranhenses National Park
    Inscribed: 2024
    3.49
    22
    2
    Core zone includes 80km of Atlantic coastline
  • Ilulissat Icefjord
    Inscribed: 2004
    4.14
    41
    5
    Ilulissat debouches into either Baffin Bay or Davis Strait.
  • Grand Pré
    Inscribed: 2012
    2.51
    80
    9
    Coastal areas border the Minas Basin, an inlet of the Bay of Fundy
  • Grand-Bassam
    Grand-Bassam
    Côte d'Ivoire
    Inscribed: 2012
    2.31
    25
    1
  • Gough and Inaccessible Islands
    Inscribed: 1995
    2.55
    8
    3
  • Garajonay
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.19
    100
    6
    Laurel forest is specific to the North Atlantic
  • Forts and Castles Gold Coast
    Inscribed: 1979
    2.87
    57
    8
  • Fortifications of Vauban
    Inscribed: 2008
    3.00
    265
    18
    -La tour Dorée de Camaret-sur-Mer -La citadelle el l'enceinte de Saint-Martin-de-Ré -Les tours-observatoires de Tatihou et de la Hougue
  • Discovery Coast
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.16
    18
    3
  • Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
    Inscribed: 2006
    3.10
    159
    11
    The north coast on the Celtic Sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean (wiki)
  • Cape Floral Region
    Inscribed: 2004
    3.40
    172
    5
    includes Cape Point
  • Bridgetown
    Bridgetown
    Barbados
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.32
    96
    7
  • Brazilian Atlantic Islands
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.21
    17
    4
    Southern Atlantic submarine ridge
  • Atlantic Forest South-East
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.02
    39
    5
    Core zone borders the coast for a large stretch, Ilha do Mel is an island in the Atlantic Ocean
  • Paraty and Ilha Grande
    Inscribed: 2019
    3.21
    80
    5
  • Island of Gorée
    Inscribed: 1978
    2.89
    69
    3