Significant ancient sites.By Shanaya & Taylah.

Ayres Rock.

Name:Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.Country state: Australia Northern Territory.

Year designated:1987Elevation:863m

Prominence:348mCoordinates: 25* 20'42's 131* 02'10'E.

Ayres rock is a very huge sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern

Territory, Central Australia. It is located 335km south west of the nearest town 'Alice Springs'

450km by road. Kata Tjuta and Uluru are the two major features of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National

Park.

Great Barrier Reef.

Site: Great Barrier Reef.Location: Queensland,Australia.

Year designated:1981.Category: Natural.

The Great Barrier Reef is the worlds largest coral system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching over 2,600 kilometresThe Great Barrier Reef is found in the Coral sea

of the coast of Queensland in North-East Australia.

Natural phenomena or beautyvii. to contain superlative natural areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance.

Significant ecological and biological processesix. to be outstanding examples representing significant on-going life and environment processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals.

Major stages of Earth's historyviii. to be outstanding examples representing major stages of Earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of land slide, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features

Significant natural habitat for biodiversityx. to contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science.

Designed in 1987Location is in ChinaCategory is cultural

The great wall of China is made of stone, brick, tamed Earth, wood and more materials generally built alongan East to West line across the historical Northern

boarders of China. It was made to protect the Chinese Empire States against intrusions by various

warlike people forces.

The Earth works begun in the 5th century B.C.

Great wall of China.

Human creative geniusi. to represent a masterpiece of human creativity.

Interchange of valuesii. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a period of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design.

Testimony to cultural traditioniii. to bear a unique or at least exceptional to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared.

Significance in human historyiv. to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates significant stages in the human history.

Heritage associated with events of universal significancevi. to be directly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance.

Victoria Falls.

Site:Mosi-oa-Tunya(vitoria falls)Location: Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Year designated:1989Reason: This waterfall is amoung the most

impressive to be found anywhere in the world.Total height: 355 feet.

Water course: Zambezi River.The Victoria falls is a waterfall found in the

southern Africia on the Zambezi River between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The

Zambezi is more than 1.25miles wide and 345 feet.

Natural phenomena or beautyvii. to contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty.

Major stages of Earth's historyviii. to be outstanding examples representing major stages of Earth's history, including the record of life.

Easter Island.

Site: Easter Island.Location: Capital Hanga Roa Chile.Year designated: 1995.Easter island is in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean. A special Chile that was shared in 1888, Easter island is famous for 887 extant monumental statues, the statues are maoi created by Rapanui people.The name ‘ Easter Island’ was given by the first recorded European visitor, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who created it as Easter Sunday 1722.

CRITERIA. CRITERIA. Human creative genius

to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius.

Testimony to cultural traditionto bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared.

Traditional human settlementto be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land or sea use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change.

Angkor.

Location: Cambodia designated: 1992Angkor is a region ‘Cambodia’ that’s served of the seat of ‘khemer empire’. The word Angkor dervived from Sanskrit Nagara meaning city. The ruins of Angkor are found in amid forests and farm land to the north of the great lake in south of kulen hills. In 2007 an international tem of researches using satellite photographs and a number of other modern techniques concluded that Angkor had been the largest preindustrial city in he world.

Criteria.Criteria.Human creative geniusto represent a masterpiece of human creative genius.Interchange of values to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landslide design.Testimony to cultural traditionto bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared.Significance in human historyto be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landslide which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history.

Phoenix Island Location: Kiribati Designated year: 2010Category: NaturalThe Phoenix Island is placed in-between Hawaii and Fiji in the Pacific. Tracts of the deep ocean studies, 30 large submerge Volcanoes.

Did you know: That 500 species have been found in the oceans of Phoenix Islands.

Natural phenomena or beautyto contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance.

Significant ecological and biological processesto be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals.

Petra. Location: the Hashemite kingdom of JordanReason for designation- this incredible “LOST” city in stone blends the best of the middle eastern influences.

Jordan's city in stone is a monument to a powerful civilization which blossomed 2,000yrs ago. The surroundings are rocky mountains and clifts.

Human creative geniusto represent a masterpiece of human creative genius.

Traditional human settlementto be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land or sea use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change.

Testimony to cultural traditionto bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared.

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