High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago

Photo by Lars Guvå (Highcoast.net)

The High Coast and the Kvarken Archipelago (added in 2006 as an extension to this World Heritage site) are outstanding examples of glaciation processes.

Both sites, on either side of the Gulf of Bothnia, hold numerous islands and islets. The High Coast is important for research on isostacy, in which the land rises as the weight of the glaciers melts off of it. This phenomenon was first recognised and studied here.
Kvarken features unusual ridged washboard moraines, "De Greer moraines", formed by the melting of the continental ice sheet, 10,000 to 24,000 years ago.

Year	Decision	Comments
2008	Name change	From "Kvarken Archipelago / High Coast" to "High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago"
2006	Extended	To include the Kvarken Archipelago, Finland
2006	Name change	From "High Coast" to "Kvarken Archipelago / High Coast, Finland and Sweden"
2000	Inscribed	Reasons for inscription
1999	Deferred	High Coast: Bureau - better doc of marine aspects. Also consideration of a "Cultural Landscape".

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Fanch (sweden):
Hello!
A very nice place. Don't miss the smal fishing village, the mannamine museum and the Krevassen!

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