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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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- 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
- 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
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