Named after Queen Victoria

Connected Sites: 11

WHS or parts thereof named after Queen Victoria (1819-1901), the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the first Empress of India of the British Raj.

Connected Sites

  • St. George, Bermuda
    St. George, Bermuda
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2000
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    "Fort Victoria" is listed on the UNESCO Web site as location 983-017 (out of 24) despite this comment in the AB review "the integrity of Fort Victoria has been compromised by its conversion to a hotel recreation facility so that it no longer retains the authenticity necessary for inclusion on the World Heritage List"
  • Victoria Falls
    Victoria Falls
    Zambia, Zimbabwe
    Inscribed: 1989
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    134
    5
    Inscribed in 1989 as Victoria Falls/Mosi-oa-Tunya. Named after Queen Victoria by David Livingstone during his 1852-6 journey from the Upper Zambezi to its mouth. As of Oct 2009 the park in Zimbabwe within which the falls are isutated is still called "Victoria Falls NP" altohugh the equivalent park on the Zambian side is called "Mosi-oa-Tunya NP".
  • City of Bath
    City of Bath
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
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    409
    13
    Royal Victoria Park was opened by Princess Victoria in 1830
  • Tajik National Park
    Inscribed: 2013
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    28
    3
    Karakul (Black Lake): British cartographers and the British administration in India gave the lake the name "Lake Victoria of the Pamirs" in honor of Queen Victoria, the British monarch. All British maps of the time, as well as Imperial Russian maps, used Victoria for the name of the lake. (wiki)
  • Westminster
    Westminster
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.61
    631
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    Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster: named after and first stone laid by Queen Victoria
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Kew Gardens
    Kew Gardens
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2003
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    335
    17
    Queen Victoria agreed to open Kew Palace to the public in 1898 + Victoria Gate
    See www.kew.org
  • Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2021
    3.28
    442
    16
    City of Bath: "Royal Victoria Park, opened by Princess Victoria (future Queen of England) in 1830". (Nomination File, p. 441)
  • Greater Blue Mountains
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.19
    197
    15
    Queen Victoria Lookout near Wentworth Falls and Victoria Falls and Victoria Creek near Mount Victoria
  • Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
    Inscribed: 2004
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    131
    10
    WHS is officially titled "Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)". It had been renamed in 1996.
  • Causses and Cévennes
    Inscribed: 2011
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    124
    5
    Édouard Martel named one of the rocks after Queen Victoria, to celebrate the Entente cordiale
  • Melaka and George Town
    Inscribed: 2008
    3.00
    243
    8
    "Queen Victoria Fountain" in Melaka