The High Coast
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| Kvarken Archipelago / High Coast* | |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
| Image:Höga Kusten, Gulf Rödviken near Ullånger, Sweden.jpg | |
| State Party | Image:Flag of Finland.svg Finland and Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden |
| Type | Natural |
| Criteria | viii |
| Reference | 898 |
| Region† | Europe and North America |
| Inscription history | |
| Inscription | 2000 (24th Session) |
| Extensions | 2006 |
| * Name as inscribed on World Heritage List. † Region as classified by UNESCO. | |
The High Coast (Swedish: Höga kusten) is a part of the Swedish coast on the Gulf of Bothnia, situated in the municipalities of Kramfors, Härnösand and Örnsköldsvik and notable as the "type area" for research on isostasy, in which the land rises as the weight of the glaciers melts off of it. This phenomenon was first recognised and studied there; since the last ice age the land has risen 800 m, which accounds for the unusual landscape with tall cliff formations.
UNESCO, while inscribing the area on the World Heritage List in 2000, remarked that "the High Coast site affords outstanding opportunities for the understanding of the important processes that formed the glaciated and land uplift areas of the Earth's surface".
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World Heritage Sites in Finland | |
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Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki · Fortress of Suomenlinna · High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago (with Sweden) · Old Rauma · Petäjävesi Old Church · Verla Groundwood and Board Mill · Struve Geodetic Arc (with nine other countries) | |
World Heritage Sites in Sweden | |
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Agricultural Landscape of Stora Alvaret (Southern Öland) · Birka and Hovgården · Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå · Engelsberg Ironworks · High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago (with Finland) · Naval Port of Karlskrona · Laponian Area · Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain, Falun · Rock Carvings in Tanum · Royal Domain of Drottningholm · Skogskyrkogården · Struve Geodetic Arc (with nine other countries) · Varberg Radio Station (Grimeton VLF transmitter) · Hanseatic Town of Visby | |
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