New admission to the UNESCO cultural and natural heritage in 1981

In 1981 the following new admissions to the UNESCO cultural and natural heritage took place:

World heritage

Old City of Jerusalem

Great Barrier Reef

Garden side of the Würzburg Residence

Zoomorph in Quiriguá

Haida - Longhouse in Gwaii Haanas National Park

Alamgiri Gate of Lahore Fort

At the request of seventeen of its members, the World Heritage Committee met in Paris on September 10 and 11, 1981, for its first extraordinary session, mainly to discuss the inscription of the Old City and the city walls of Jerusalem on the World Heritage List. At its fifth ordinary session in Sydney from October 26 to 30, 1981 , the World Heritage Committee added 26 more sites from 13 countries to the UNESCO World Heritage List, including 15 cultural (K) and 11 natural (N) sites.

World Heritage List

The following sites have been added to the World Heritage List:

Contracting State	designation	Type	Ref.	Remarks
Not assigned to any state	Old City and City Walls of Jerusalem	K	148
Argentina	Los Glaciares	N	145
Australia	Kakadu National Park	N	147
	Great Barrier Reef	N	154
	Willandra Lake Region	N	167
Germany	Speyer Cathedral	K	168
	Würzburg Residence and Court Garden	K	169
France	Fontainebleau Castle and Park	K	160
	Chambord Castle	K	161	Chambord Castle was incorporated into the Loire Valley cultural heritage, registered in 2000, between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes (Ref. 933 ).
	Amiens Cathedral	K	162
	Roman theater and its surroundings and the “ Arc de Triomphe ” of Orange	K	163
	Roman and Romanesque monuments of Arles	K	164
	Fontenay Cistercian Abbey	K	165
Guatemala	Quiriguá Archaeological Park and Ruins	K	149	Mayan site with important sculptures and steles.
Guinea	Total reserve Mount Nimba	N	155	In the following year, the cross-border extension to areas in the Ivory Coast recommended at the time of enrollment was implemented.
Canada	Anthony Island	K	157
	Head-Smashed-In Bison Jump	K	158
Morocco	Medina of Fez	K	170
Pakistan	Historical monuments of Thatta	K	143
	Fortress and Shalimar Gardens in Lahore	K	171	Two nominations, 171 and 172, were combined to form a world heritage site.
Panama	Darién National Park	N	159
Senegal	Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary	N	25th
	Niokolo-Koba National Park	N	153
Tanzania	Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara	K	144
	Serengeti National Park	N	156
United States	Mammoth Cave National Park	N	150
	Olympic National Park	N	151

In addition, 20 nominations were postponed for which additional information was required. The following three nominations had already been withdrawn before the meeting in order to gain time for their revision.

• Sydney Opera House (Australia, K), enrolled in 2007.
• Palace des Deys in Algiers (Algeria K), the proposal has been revised to include the entire Kasbah of Algiers , which was inscribed in 1992.
• Monastery complex San Salvatore / Santa Giulia (Italy, K), the monastery complex was included in the list of world heritage in 2011 as part of the serial cultural heritage The Lombards in Italy, Places of Power .

Web links

• First extraordinary session. Report of the Rapporteur. UNESCO World Heritage Center, September 30, 1981, accessed May 2, 2018 . 
• Report of the Rapporteur - World Heritage Committee - Fifth Session. World Heritage Committee, January 5, 1982, accessed May 2, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sydney Opera House / Opéra de Sydney on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).
2. ↑ Kasbah of Algiers / Casbah d'Alger on the website of the UNESCO World Heritage Center ( English and French ).
3. ^ Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 AD) / Les Lombards en Italie. Lieux de pouvoir (568-774 après J.-C.) on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).