World Heritage in Papua New Guinea

The World Heritage in Papua New Guinea (as of 2016) includes a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The oceanic state of Papua New Guinea joined the World Heritage Convention in 1997, and the only World Heritage site to date was added to the World Heritage List in 2008.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Papua New Guinea in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion on the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ) .

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Historical agricultural landscape of Kuk ( location )	2008	K	887	archaeological site in the swamp region of Kuk in the southern highlands of the island of New Guinea

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list . Currently (2017) seven sites are entered in the tentative list of Papua New Guinea, the last entry was made in 2006. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the tentative list.

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Kikori River Basin / Great Papua Plateau ( location )	2006	K / N	5060	The Kikori River Basin and the Great Papua Plateau
	Kokoda Track and Owen Stanley Mountains ( location )	2006	K / N	5061	Part of the Owen Stanley Mountains with the Kokoda Track
	Trans-Fly Complex ( location )	2006	K / N	5062
	Milne Bay Seascape ( Location )	2006	K / N	5063	Pacific gems of marine biodiversity in Milne Bay Province include, among others. a. the Conflict Islands , Lunn Island , Jomard Islands, and Samarai and Bramble Haven .
	Sublime Karste of Papua New Guinea	2006	K / N	5064	includes u. a. Nakanai , Muller Plateau and Hindenburg Wall
	Upper Sepik River Basin ( location )	2006	K / N	5065	Upper part of the river Sepik catchment area with the slopes of the Central Range , the Torricelli Mountains and the Prince Alexander Mountains
	Huon Terraces - stairs to the past ( location )	2006	K / N	5066	The coastal terraces of the Huon Peninsula are an important testimony to the history of geoclimatic conditions over the past 300,000 years.

Web links

Commons : World Heritage Sites in Papua New Guinea  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Papua New Guinea on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Papua New Guinea. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 7, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Papua New Guinea. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 7, 2017 . 

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