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Jodrell Bank Observatory
Jay T USA - 30-Dec-23
I couldn't very well leave 2023 on an odd number of World Heritage Sites, so I took my car out for a two and a half hour drive today to the nearest World Heritage Site I had yet to visit: Jodrell Bank Observatory. The United Kingdom is replete with astronomical-associated World Heritage Sites, with perhaps the most complete range across history of any country, from Stonehenge and Avebury in the Neolithic, to Maritime Greenwich's Royal Observatory in the 18th and 19th centuries, to Jodrell Bank Observatory covering the mid to late 20th century. But the history of the site has been well-documented in other reviews, so I won't repeat it here. What's new is the visitor center, which opened in 2022, so I'll speak to that.
Read OnRedwood
Jay T USA - 25-Dec-22
O Mammutbaum, o Mammutbaum! How towering are your branches. The giant redwoods are truly majestic trees, and the Redwood National and State Parks in California are a superb location to admire the sheer size and beauty of these ancient evergreens. As referenced in other reviews, this World Heritage Site consists of Redwood National Park, as well as Del Norte Coast, Jedediah Smith, and Prairie Creek state parks. A drive along the California coast on Route 101 between Eureka and Crescent City will take one right through the heart of these protected groves; it is an extremely memorable experience.
Read OnGwaii Haanas (T)
Jay T USA - 30-Sep-22
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site, located on the southern islands of Haida Gwaii, is a proposed extension to SG̱ang Gwaay, a World Heritage Site marking the cultural heritage of the Haida people who live throughout Haida Gwaii. I have to say right off that I am in favor of such an extension, since the Haida are letting SG̱ang Gwaay return to nature, which means that the remarkable memorial and mortuary poles there will one day be only memories.
What would an extension provide from a cultural perspective? Well, in addition to SG̱ang Gwaay, Gwaii Haanas includes four other Watchmen sites: villages with resident Haida interpreters who live on site during [...]
Read OnSGang Gwaay
Jay T USA - 07-Sep-22
The poles are still standing. It has been over fifteen years since the last review of SG̱ang Gwaay, but the remarkably carved memorial and mortuary poles that led to this site being inscribed on the World Heritage Site are still in place. Weathering and decay are taking their natural toll on the village, as the fine details on the poles continue to fade. As far as the Haida people who populate the islands of Haida Gwaii are concerned, however, this is an expected part of life and should not be prevented.
Read OnChristiansfeld
Jay T USA - 03-Aug-22
I know much has been written about Christiansfeld already, but I don't yet see a review from the perspective of one who has visited a component of the proposed extension to the World Heritage Site before visiting Denmark. In the spring of 2021 I took a road trip to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to learn more about the Moravian Church Settlements Tentative World Heritage Site extension to Christiansfeld. I came away from the trip with a much richer understanding of the role of the Moravian Church in early America, and the innovations they brought to the young country. The trip gave me high hopes for my visit to Christiansfeld when I traveled to Denmark last month, but unfortunately I left disappointed.
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Rating StatsIguacu 5Istanbul 5Petra 5Rapa Nui 5Rome 5Uluru 5Acropolis 4.5Everglades 4.5Giant's Causeway 4.5Göreme NP 4.5Hawaii Volcanoes 4.5Lake Baikal 4.5Nikko 4.5Pompei 4.5Redwood 4.5Toledo 4.5Valletta 4.5Vatican City 4.5Versailles 4.5Wadi Rum 4.5Yellowstone 4.5Bamberg 4Brugge 4Budapest 4Ephesus 4Florence 4Quito 4Québec 4Rhodes 4Salzburg 4Segovia 4Siena 4Sintra 4Vienna 4Brú na Bóinne 3.5Gulf of Porto 3.5Historic Cairo 3.5Ibiza 3.5Kew Gardens 3.5Las Medulas 3.5Neolithic Orkney 3.5Olympia 3.5SGang Gwaay 3.5Santo Domingo 3.5Speyer Cathedral 3.5Split 3.5Al Ain 3Belem 3Naples 3Potsdam 3Biblical Tells 2.5Blenheim Palace 2.5Cahokia Mounds 2.5Forth Bridge 2.5Kotor 2.5Lima 2.5Poverty Point 2.5Quseir Amra 2.5Rideau Canal 2.5Skogskyrkogarden 2.5Turaif Quarter 2.5Um er-Rasas 2.5Vizcaya Bridge 2.5Aranjuez 2Belfries 2Evora 2Reviewed WHS
- Jodrell Bank Observatory
- Redwood
- SGang Gwaay
- Christiansfeld
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Santo Domingo
- Zacatecas
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
- Cahokia Mounds
- Yellowstone
- Valparaiso
- Stoclet House
- Rhodes
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Villa d'Este
- Tower of Hercules
- Segovia
- Rapa Nui
- Olympic National Park
- Machu Picchu
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Etruscan Necropolises
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Bamberg
- Würzburg Residence
- Valletta
- St. Petersburg
- Roman Walls of Lugo
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Mount Etna
- Luis Barragán House and Studio
- Gulf of Porto
- El Escurial
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Aranjuez
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
- Toledo
- Santiago de Compostela
- Potsdam
- Neolithic Orkney
- Lima
- Gwynedd Castles
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Burgos Cathedral
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Statue of Liberty
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Pompei
- Las Medulas
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Flemish Béguinages
- Camino Real
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Speyer Cathedral
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Lake Baikal
- Gros Morne National Park
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Brugge
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
- Thingvellir
- Huascaran National Park
- Poverty Point
- Pitons Management Area
- Mesa Verde
- Joggins Fossil Cliffs
- Grand Place, Brussels
- Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
- Belfries
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- Split
- Quito
- Greater Blue Mountains
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Skocjan Caves
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- La Fortaleza and San Juan
- Grand Pré
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- White City of Tel-Aviv
- Tombs of Buganda Kings
- San Antonio Missions
- Olympia
- Kotor
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Antigua Naval Dockyard
- Venetian Works of Defence
- Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca
- Petra
- Kinderdijk
- Galapagos Islands
- Budapest
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Sangay National Park
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Great Barrier Reef
- Brú na Bóinne
- Westminster
- Sintra
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Kew Gardens
- Göreme NP
- Blenheim Palace
- Wadi Rum
- Singapore Botanic Gardens
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
- Giant's Causeway
- Biblical Tells
- Vienna
- Schönbrunn
- Morne Trois Pitons
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Fortifications of Vauban
- Belem
- Versailles
- Siena
- Old Town Lunenburg
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Forth Bridge
- Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan"
- Venice and its Lagoon
- San Marino and Mount Titano
- Nubian Monuments
- Independence Hall
- Florence
- Ayutthaya
- Vatican City
- Salzburg
- Novodevichy Convent
- Iguazu National Park
- Evora
- Ancient Thebes
- Um er-Rasas
- Rome
- New Lanark
- Iguacu
- Everglades
- Australian Convict Sites
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Royal Exhibition Building
- Nikko
- Istanbul
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Uluru
- Rietveld Schröderhuis
- Naples
- Ibiza
- Edinburgh
- Al Ain
- Turaif Quarter
- Rideau Canal
- Ephesus
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Historic Cairo
- Acropolis
- Tower of London
- Quseir Amra
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Yosemite National Park
- Tongariro National Park
- Québec
- Monticello
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
Visited TWHS
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Ancient Greek Theatres (T)
- Arbel (arbel, nebe shueb, horns of hittim) (T)
- Auckland Volcanic Fields (T)
- Bet She'an (T)
- Birkenhead Park, the pioneering People’s Park (T)
- Brooklyn Bridge (T)
- Caesarea (T)
- California Current Conservation Complex (T)
- Capital Fortifications of Hanyang : Hangyangdoseong Capital City Wall, Bukhansanseong Mountain Fortress and Tangchundaeseong Defense Wall (T)
- Casablanca, Ville du XXème siécle, carrefour d'influences (T)
- Central Park (T)
- Centre historique d'Irkoutsk (T)
- Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle (T)
- City of York: historic urban core (T)
- Dahshour archaeological area (T)
- Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo's Home-Study Museum (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Early Chicago Skyscrapers (T)
- Early Synagogues in the Galilee (T)
- East Atlantic Flyway: England East Coast Wetlands (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- Ellis Island (T)
- Flow Country (T)
- Gwaii Haanas (T)
- Head Office and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (T)
- Historical Lisbon, Global City (T)
- Human Rights, Liberation Struggle and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites (T)
- Insular area and bay of Colonia del Sacramento (T)
- Jerash Archaeological City (Ancient Meeting Place of East and West) (T)
- Khor Dubai (T)
- Knights Fortifications around the Harbours of Malta (T)
- La Moneda Palace (T)
- Late Medieval Bastioned Fortifications in Greece (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Les Plages du Débarquement, Normandie, 1944 (T)
- Manama, City of Trade, Multiculturalism and Religious Coexistence (T)
- Minoan Palatial Centres (T)
- Modernist Centre of Gdynia — the example of building an integrated community (T)
- Moravian Church Settlements (USA) (T)
- Mount Vernon (T)
- Napier Art Deco historic precinct (T)
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (T)
- Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (T)
- Pombaline Lisbon (T)
- Primeros Ingenios Coloniales Azucareros de América (T)
- QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (T)
- Rade de Marseille (T)
- Route of Magellan (T)
- Salt Mines of Maras (T)
- Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (T)
- Serpent Mound (T)
- Sharjah: the Gate to Trucial States (T)
- Soufriere-Scott’s Head Marine Reserve (T)
- St. George Fortified System (T)
- St. George Historic District (T)
- The cultural landscape of the Benedictine settlements in medieval Italy (T)
- The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles (T)
- The Ribeira Sacra, Lugo and Orense (T)
- The Royal Sites of Ireland: Cashel, Dún Ailinne, Hill of Uisneach, Rathcroghan Complex, and Tara Complex (T)
- Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Thomas Jefferson Buildings (T)
- Triple-arch Gate at Dan & Sources of the Jordan (T)
- Via Francigena in Italy (T)
- VIKING MONUMENTS AND SITES / Thingvellir National Park (T)
- Waitangi Treaty Grounds (T)
- White Sands National Monument (T)
Reviewed TWHS
Top 200 WHS
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Koutammakou
- Timbuktu
- Alto Douro
- Olympia
- Acropolis
- Ephesus
- Pompei
- Baalbek
- Leptis Magna
- Syracuse
- Aleppo
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Fez
- Samarkand
- Hué
- Potala Palace
- Borobudur
- Bamiyan Valley
- Taj Mahal
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Aachen Cathedral
- Lalibela
- Meteora
- Vatican City
- Saint Catherine Area
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Qadisha Valley
- Chartres Cathedral
- Luther Memorials
- Abbey of St Gall
- Westminster
- Sydney Opera House
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Kinderdijk
- Cliff of Bandiagara
- Great Zimbabwe
- Meroe
- Ouro Preto
- Québec
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
- Santo Domingo
- Old Havana
- Coffee Cultural Landscape
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Tequila
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Loire Valley
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Rio de Janeiro
- Grand Pré
- Air and Téneré
- El Pinacate
- Wadi Rum
- Namib Sand Sea
- Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
- Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Nubian Monuments
- Göreme NP
- Grand Canyon
- Uluru
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Ancient Kyoto
- Gyeongju
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
- Virunga National Park
- Galapagos Islands
- Banc d'Arguin
- Ngorongoro
- Serengeti
- Keoladeo National Park
- Cape Floral Region
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana
- Dja Faunal Reserve
- Glacier parks
- Yosemite National Park
- Los Glaciares
- Laponian Area
- Gros Morne National Park
- Chola Temples
- Fujisan
- Sub-Antarctic Islands
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
- South China Karst
- Gunung Mulu
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Skocjan Caves
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Cuzco
- West Norwegian Fjords
- Gulf of California
- Te Wahipounamu
- Great Barrier Reef
- Socotra Archipelago
- Brazilian Atlantic Islands
- Maritime Greenwich
- Valparaiso
- Granada
- Kraków
- Brugge
- Seville
- Strasbourg
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Genbaku Dome
- Statue of Liberty
- Bikini Atoll
- Independence Hall
- Gwynedd Castles
- Himeji-jo
- Great Wall
- Masada
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast
- Red Fort
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Potosi
- Guanajuato
- Sewell Mining Town
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
- Western Ghats
- Huascaran National Park
- Samarra
- Persepolis
- Petra
- Al Ain
- Rapa Nui
- Imperial Palace
- Versailles
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Wartburg Castle
- Dorset and East Devon Coast
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Potsdam
- Carthage
- Tyre
- Amsterdam Canal Ring
- Florence
- St. Petersburg
- Dubrovnik
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Budapest
- Vienna
- Valletta
- SGang Gwaay
- Mesa Verde
- Machu Picchu
- Chan Chan
- Teotihuacan
- Tikal National Park
- Chichen-Itza
- Cahokia Mounds
- Stonehenge
- Nasca Lines
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Kenya Lake System
- Pantanal
- Victoria Falls
- Lake Baikal
- Okavango Delta
- Iguazu National Park
- Plitvice Lakes
- Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
- Everglades
- Angkor
- Ayutthaya
- Silk Roads Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor
- Qhapaq Ñan
- Island of Gorée
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Istanbul
- Rome
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Damascus
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Prague
- Stone Town of Zanzibar
- Edinburgh
- Salzburg
- Old City of Acre
- Walled City of Baku
- Cordoba
- Shibam
- Brasilia
- Thingvellir
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Isole Eolie
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Yellowstone
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Giant's Causeway
- Tongariro National Park
- Pitons Management Area