We visited Taputapuatea in 1991 when we had a short vacation on Raiatea. Taputapuatea is a set of ancient Polynesian marae, which you can think of as a large open …
Dennis Nicklaus
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About Dennis Nicklaus
- Member since
 - January 2018
 
- Country of Origin
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Visits
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 - #316
 
- WHS
 - 180
 
- Tentative Sites
 - 46
 
Website Participation
- Reviews
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World Heritage Sites
- Great Barrier Reef 5.0
 - Rock Islands 5.0
 - Lalibela 5.0
 - Granada 5.0
 - Fortified City of Carcassonne 5.0
 - Bethlehem 5.0
 - Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 5.0
 - Masada 5.0
 - Calakmul 5.0
 - Socotra Archipelago 5.0
 - Iguazu National Park 5.0
 - Uluru 5.0
 - Iguacu 5.0
 - Olympic National Park 5.0
 - Sigiriya 5.0
 - Victoria Falls 5.0
 - Nan Madol 5.0
 - Old City of Jerusalem 5.0
 - Petra 5.0
 - Angkor 5.0
 - Ephesus 5.0
 - Rapa Nui 5.0
 - Palenque 5.0
 - Tikal National Park 5.0
 - Great Wall 5.0
 - Vatican City 5.0
 - Rome 5.0
 - Bwindi Impenetrable National Park 5.0
 - Acropolis 5.0
 - Cuzco 5.0
 - Machu Picchu 5.0
 - Nasca Lines 5.0
 - Teotihuacan 5.0
 - Uxmal 5.0
 - Borobudur 5.0
 - Florence 5.0
 - Dubrovnik 5.0
 - Istanbul 5.0
 - Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
 - Ancient Thebes 5.0
 - St. Petersburg 5.0
 - Grand Canyon 4.5
 - Prague 4.5
 - Loire Valley 4.5
 - Dolomites 4.5
 - Antigua Guatemala 4.5
 - Edinburgh 4.5
 - Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.5
 - Arles 4.5
 - Ancient Kyoto 4.5
 - Rio de Janeiro 4.5
 - Brú na Bóinne 4.5
 - Giant's Causeway 4.5
 - Kraków 4.5
 - Kathmandu Valley 4.0
 - Imperial Tombs 4.0
 - Prambanan 4.0
 - Verona 4.0
 - Caves of Maresha and Bet Guvrin 4.0
 - Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing 4.0
 - Trang An 4.0
 - Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 4.0
 - Versailles 4.0
 - Stonehenge and Avebury 4.0
 - Salzburg 4.0
 - Great Smoky Mountains 4.0
 - The Colonial Transisthmian Route of Panamá 4.0
 - Taputapuātea 4.0
 - Andrefana Dry Forests 4.0
 - Joya de Ceren 4.0
 - Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
 - Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 4.0
 - Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
 - Luang Prabang 4.0
 - Chichen-Itza 4.0
 - Nubian Monuments 4.0
 - Gyeongju 4.0
 - Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.0
 - Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
 - Thingvellir 4.0
 - Biblical Tells 4.0
 - Incense Route of the Negev 4.0
 - Rhodes 4.0
 - Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.0
 - Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines 4.0
 - Greater Blue Mountains 4.0
 - Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
 - Budapest 4.0
 - Sagarmatha National Park 4.0
 - Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town 4.0
 - Mesa Verde 4.0
 - Polonnaruva 4.0
 - Mammoth Cave 4.0
 - Vézère Valley 4.0
 - City of Bath 4.0
 - Venice and its Lagoon 4.0
 - Copán 4.0
 - Vienna 4.0
 - Plitvice Lakes 4.0
 - Old City of Acre 4.0
 - Caral-Supe 4.0
 - Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5
 - Vatnajökull National Park 3.5
 - Cahokia Mounds 3.5
 - Tongariro National Park 3.5
 - Tiwanaku 3.5
 - Blue and John Crow Mountains 3.5
 - Maritime Greenwich 3.5
 - Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 3.5
 - Saint-Emilion 3.5
 - Burgundy 3.5
 - Ancient Nara 3.5
 - Necropolis of Bet She'arim 3.5
 - Toledo 3.5
 - Cape Floral Region 3.5
 - Himeji-jo 3.5
 - Amsterdam Canal Ring 3.5
 - Bali Subak system 3.0
 - Brugge 3.0
 - Kandy 3.0
 - Cologne Cathedral 3.0
 - Itsukushima Shrine 3.0
 - Chitwan National Park 3.0
 - Caceres 3.0
 - Independence Hall 3.0
 - Statue of Liberty 3.0
 - Mérida 3.0
 - Tarraco 3.0
 - Kronborg Castle 3.0
 - Arequipa 3.0
 - Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 3.0
 - Kotor 3.0
 - Westminster 3.0
 - Tower of London 3.0
 - Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos 3.0
 - Lima 3.0
 - Guanajuato 3.0
 - Evora 3.0
 - Split 3.0
 - Historic Cairo 3.0
 - Cartagena 3.0
 - Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.0
 - Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.0
 - Avignon 3.0
 - Bordeaux 3.0
 - Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.0
 - San Miguel de Allende 3.0
 - Grand Place, Brussels 3.0
 - Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" 3.0
 - Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.0
 - Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
 - Beijing Central Axis 3.0
 - Old City of Berne 2.5
 - Yogyakarta 2.5
 - Maulbronn Monastery 2.5
 - Canal du Midi 2.5
 - Temple of Heaven 2.5
 - Seville 2.5
 - Memorial Sites of Genocide 2.5
 - Regensburg 2.5
 - Sydney Opera House 2.5
 - Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
 - Schönbrunn 2.5
 - San Antonio Missions 2.5
 - Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 2.0
 - Le Morne 2.0
 - Bahá’i Holy Places 2.0
 - Ambohimanga 2.0
 - Mount Carmel Caves 2.0
 - Botanical Garden, Padua 2.0
 - Strasbourg 2.0
 - Roskilde Cathedral 2.0
 - Robben Island 2.0
 - Plečnik's Ljubljana 2.0
 - Colonia del Sacramento 2.0
 - City of Luxembourg 2.0
 - Willemstad 2.0
 - Nice 2.0
 - Tombs of Buganda Kings 1.0
 - Aapravasi Ghat 1.0
 - White City of Tel-Aviv 1.0
 
Tentative Sites
- Guano Islands, Islets, and Capes National Reserve
 - Lake Titicaca
 - Pharaonic temples in Upper Egypt
 - Historical city of Izamal
 - Region Lacan-Tún - Usumacinta
 - Hikone-Jo
 - Los Petenes-Ría Celestún
 - The Karlstejn Castle
 - Sea of Galilee
 - Caesarea
 - The Crusader Fortresses
 - Shaubak Castle
 - Chapultepec Woods, Hill and Castle
 - Town of Chichicastenango
 - Massif du Mont Blanc
 - Central Park
 - White Sands National Monument
 - Centre ancien de Sarlat
 - Lake Atitlán
 - Early Chicago Skyscrapers
 - City of York
 - Torres del Paine and Bernardo O'Higgins NPs
 - Bet She'an
 - Jerusalem
 - Sacred Titicaca Lake
 - The Royal Sites of Ireland
 - Nasca Aqueducts
 - Carcassonne fortresses
 - Nosy Lonjo d'Antsiranana
 - Imeong Conservation Area
 - QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of Dead Sea Scrolls
 - The Galilee Journeys of Jesus & the Apostles
 - Cara Sucia / El Imposible
 - The Bodrum Castle
 - The Dunejec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains
 - Pisco Wineries and Vineyards
 
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