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"Extended" Sites

WHS which have been altered in size and/or criteria - Date originally inscribed/ (for each change) Date Altered/Nature of size change made/Any different Criteria/Any name change.

World Heritage Sites connected to '"Extended" Sites':

  • Altamira Cave 85/08 Addition of 17 decorated paleolithic caves/No criteria change/Name changed from "Altamira Cave"
  • Asturian Monuments 85/98/Cámara Santa, Basilica of San Julián de los Prados, La Foncalada added/No criteria change/Name changed from "Churches of the Kingdom of the Asturias"
  • Belfries 99/05/Belfries in France plus 1 in Belgium added/No criteria change/Name change from "Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia"
  • Berat and Gjirokastra 05/09/Berat added/No criteria change/Name changed from "Museum-City of Gjirokastra
  • Budapest 87/02/Andrassy Av + Underground added/No criteria change/Name changed from "Budapest, the banks of the Danube with the district of Buda Castle" top include Andrassy Avenue
  • Butrint 92/99/220ha added containing Bronze age and Roman remains/No criteria change/No name change
  • Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 80/84 1st change. "Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks" (Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho) inscribed incorporating the Burgress Shale site (part of Yoho) inscribed in 1980/Criteria used Natural i/ii/iii but original criteria for Burgress Shale do not seem to be available! 2ndChange 90/Mt Robson etc added/No criteria change recorded but inscribed criteria now are vii + viii. Again UNESCO documentation is not available
  • Caves of the Aggtelek and Slovak Karst 95/00/Dobrinska Ice Cave added (6km2) to "add variety and complement the existing site"/No criteria change/No name change
  • Chola Temples 87/04/Addit 2 temple complexes (Brihadisvara in Gangaikondacholapuram and the Airavatesvara in Darasuram)/Cult criteria i + iv added/Name changed from "Bribadisvara Temple Thanjavur"
  • Classical Gardens of Suzhou 97/00/5 gardens added to the previuos 4/No criteria change/No name change
  • Cocos Island 97/02/Additional marine zone from 977 to 1997 sq km/No criteria change/no name change
  • Cordoba 84/94/Historic Centre added/No criteria change/Name change from "Mosque of Cordoba"
  • Dubrovnik 79/94/Suburbs and island of Locrum added/No criteria change/No name change
  • Ferrara 95/99/Este ducal residences and cult landscape of Po delta added/Criteria iii + iv added/Name changed from "Ferrara City of the Renaissance"
  • Frontiers of the Roman Empire 87/1st change 05/Upper German-Raetian Limes added thus making the site a transnational one/No criteria change/Name change from "Hadrian's Wall" to "Frontiers of the Roman Empire, United Kingdom and Germany". Each location was allowed a different title e.g "Frontiers of the Roman Empire: Hadrian's Wall". 2nd change 08/Antonine Wall in Scotland added/No criteria change/No name change
  • Galapagos Islands 78/01/Marine reserve of 133k sq kms added to terrestrial NP of 76k sq kms
  • Glacier parks 79/1st change 92/Glacier Bay added increasing area by 25%/No criteria change/Name change added "Glacier Bay to "Wrangell/St Elias/Kluane"! 2nd Change 94 Tatshenshini-Alsek Prov Wildlife Park added c958000ha/No criteria change/Name change suggested to something simpler but new area's name was just added again!
  • Gough and Inaccessible Islands 95/04 Inacessible Is added (land area increase from 6500ha to 7900ha plus marine zone to 12 n miles)/No criteria change/Name changed from "Gough Island wildlife Reserve"
  • Granada 84/94/addition of the Albayazin qtr/No Criteria change/Name changed from "The Albambra and the Generalife, Granada"
  • Guanacaste 99/04/16k ha of land called "Sector Santa Elena" added to the previous 88k ha of land and 43k of sea) /No criteria change/No name change
  • Ha Long Bay 94/00/No change to area/Nat Crit i added (New viii)/No name change
  • Haghpat and Sanahin 96/00/Sanahin added/No criteria change/Name changed from "Monastery of Haghpat"
  • High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago 00/06/Finnish Kvarken Archipelago (194k ha) added to Sweden's previous 142k ha thus creating a transnational site/No criteria change. Name changed from "High Coast" to ""Kvarken Archipelago / High Coast, Finland and Sweden" (2yrs later it was changed again to "High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago").
  • Imperial Palace 87/04 Imperial palace at Shenyang added/No criteria change/Name changed to incorporate "Shrenyang"
  • Imperial Tombs 00/1st change 03/Added 1 Ming tomb in Beijing and 7 at Xiaoling/No criteria change/No name change. 2nd change 04/4 tombs at 2 locations in Liaoning added/No criteria change/No name change
  • Kakadu National Park 81/1st change 87/Allig River added/No criteria change/No name change. 2nd change 92/Rest of park added/Cultural iii repl by i and vi/No name change
  • Lake Turkana 97/01/South Island NP added (3900ha)/No criteria change/Name change from "Sibiloi/Central Island National Parks"
  • Lima 88/91/by adding the "core of the historic city" to the original complex of the 3 churches of San Francisco, la Soledad and El Milagro/Criterion ii was removed/Name changed from Convent Ensemble of San Francisco de Lima
  • Medieval Monuments in Kosovo 04/06/addition of 3 :- the Patriarchate of Peć Monastery, Gračanica Monastery and the Church of the Virgin of Ljeviša, Prizren/Criterion iii added (because of wall paintings in the 3 churches)/Name changed from "Decani Monastery"
  • Megalithic Temples of Malta 80/92/Additional 5 temples/No criteria change/Name change from "Temples of Ggantija"
  • Mount Nimba 81/82/To add 5000ha area in Ivory Coast to Guinea's 13000ha and make the site a "Transnational" one/No criteria change/No name change
  • Mountain Railways of India 99/1st change 05/Niligri Railway added/No criteria change/Name changed from "Darjeeling Himalayan Railway". 2nd change 08/Klaka-Shimla added/No criteria change/No further name change
  • Olympic National Park 81/90/Coastal Strip added/No criteria change/no name change
  • Panamá Viejo 97/03/Panama Viejo arch site added (28ha)/ No criteria change/Name changed from "Historic District of Panamá, with the Salón Bolivar, Panama"
  • Plitvice Lakes 79/00/ 10020 ha to improve integrity/No criteria change/No name change
  • Potala Palace 94/1st change 00/Jokhang Monast added/No criteria change/No name change. 2nd change 01/Norbulingka added/No criteria change/No name change
  • Potsdam 90/1st change 91 "inclusion of the castles and parks of the Berlin-Zehlendorf district,nominated by the Federal German Republic following the reunification of Germany"/No criteria change/Name change from "Chtateaux and Parks of Potsdam-Sanssoucci" to "Castle and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin". 2nd change 92/Sacrow Castle + St Sauveur added/No criteria change/no name change. 3rd change 99/various sites in Potsdam town added (Linstedt Palace, Bornstedt village, "Russian colony", observatory, parks and forests etc)/No criteria change/No name change
  • Pyrénées - Mount Perdu 97 /99/Valley of Heas in France added (550ha -2% of total)/No Criteria chnage/No name change
  • Rome 80/90/"extraterritorital properties of Santa Maria Maggiore, St John Lateran and St. Paul's Outside the Wall" added thus creating a transnational site/No criteria change/ Name change to "Historic centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extra territorial rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura"
  • Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 82/09/Great Saltworks of Salins les Bains added/No criterai change/ Name changed from "Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans" to "From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the production of open-pan salt"
  • Spissky Hrad & Levoca 93/09/ addition of the historic town-centre of Levoča/No criteria change/Name changed from "Spissky Hrad and its associated cultural monuments"
  • St. Kilda 86/1st Change 04/inscribed area extended by 96% - all marine/Nat Crit ii added/No name change. 2nd Change 05/No further change to area/Cult crit iii +iv added /No name change
  • Tasmanian Wilderness 82/89/Area of 604,645 ha added - a 78% increase in size/Not clear if the cultural criteria were added at this time?/Name change from "Western Tasmania Wilderness NPs"
  • Te Wahipounamu 86/90/by combining the previously separately inscribed Fjordland and Mt Cook and adding "1.2 million ha. of the intervening land thus joining the two sites and almost doubling the size of the area put on the list in 1986"/No criteria change/ Name changed from previous 2 previous names as above
  • Transylvanian villages 91/99/Addition of 6 villages/No criteria change/Name changed from "Biertan and its Fortified Church"
  • Tubbataha Reefs 93/09/Extended from 33200ha to 96828ha by inclusion of Jessie Beazley Reef/ No criteria change/ Name change from "Tubbataha Reef Marine Park"
  • Vicenza 94/96/Additional 22 Palladian Villas/No criteria change/Name changed from "Vicenza City of Palladio"
  • Volcanoes of Kamchatka 96/01/Kluchevskoy Nature Park (376ha) added as a 6th component/Criterion iv added/No name change
  • Willandra Lakes Region 81/95/Reduced by 30% to 24000ha (As of 2009 the only site registering a significant reduction in size)/Nocriteria change/no name change