Recorded discoveries

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Recorded discoveries':

  • Angkor Henry Mouhot (French) is credited with 'discovering' it in 1860 although many other Westerners had visited the site before him. He certainly popularised it in the West.
  • Borobudur Temple Compounds H.C. Cornelius (Dutch) on a mission sponsored by Sir Thomas Raffles in 1814
  • Canaima National Park Angel Falls Jimmy Angel (American) - 1933 (by air - first visited 1937)
  • Gough and Inaccessible Islands Goncalo Alvarez (Portuguese) 1505/6
  • Grand Canyon Garcia Lopez de Cardenas (Spanish) 1540
  • Henderson Island Pedro Fernandes de Queiros (Portuguese) 1606
  • Iguacu Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish) 1541
  • Iguazu National Park Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish) 1541
  • Kilimanjaro National Park 1848
  • Machu Picchu Hiram J Bingham (American) 1911
  • Macquarie Island F Hasselborough (Australian) 1810
  • Moenjodaro Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (Indian) 1922
  • Mount Kenya J Krapf (German) 1849 (First climbed 1899)
  • Petra Johann Ludwig Burkhardt (Swiss) 1812
  • Rapa Nui Jacob Roggeveen (Dutch) on Easter Sunday 1722
  • Troy Charles Maclaren (Scottish) 1822 established the area, Frank Calvert (English) 1850's-60's did early excavations , Charles Schliemann 1870's provided "proof"
  • Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park In October 1872 the explorer Ernest Giles was the first non-indigenous person to sight Kata Tjuṯa.
  • Victoria Falls David Livingstone (Scottish) 1855
  • Wrangel Island 1st landing (US Ship) 1881
  • Yellowstone John Colter (American - Lewis + Clarke Expedition) 1807