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SGang Gwaay
The village of Nans Dins is located on an island off the west coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii). The remains of houses and carved burial and memorial posts illustrate the art and way of life of the Haida people. The site commemorates the living culture of the Haida people and their relationship to the land and sea, and provides a key to the visual representation of their oral tradition.
French Austral Lands and Seas
French Southern Territories and Waters include the largest rare surface landmass in the South Indian Ocean: the Crozet, Kerguelen, Saint-Paul and Amsterdam Islands, as well as 60 small subantarctic islands. This "oasis" in the middle of the Southern Ocean covers an area of more than 67 million hectares and is home to one of the highest concentrations of birds and marine mammals in the world. In particular, it is home to the world's largest populations of king penguins and yellow-nosed albatrosses. Far from centres of human activity, the islands represent an exceptionally well-preserved showcase of biological evolution and a unique terrain for scientific research.
Lake Malawi National Park
Located at the southern end of the vast Lake Malawi, the national park is a deep, clear lake backed by mountains and home to hundreds of fish species, almost all of which are endemic. Its importance to evolutionary studies is comparable to that of the finches of the Galapagos Islands.
Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal, located in southeastern Siberia, covers an area of 3.15 million hectares and is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 meters) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserves. Known as the "Galapagos Islands of Russia", its long history and isolation have created one of the richest and most unusual freshwater faunas in the world, of extraordinary value to evolutionary science.
Garajonay National Park
Laurel forests cover about 70% of the park, which is located in the central part of La Gomera, in the Canary Islands. The presence of springs and numerous streams ensures a dense vegetation, similar to that of the Tertiary period, which has largely disappeared in southern Europe due to climate change.
San Cristóbal de La Laguna
San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the Canary Islands has two cores: the original, unplanned Upper Town, and the Lower Town, the first planned according to philosophical principles of an ideal "urban territory". Its wide streets and open spaces are dotted with fine churches and public and private buildings from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
East Rennell
East Rennell is located in the southern third of Rennell Island, the southernmost island of the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. At 86 km long and 15 km wide, Rennell is the largest raised coral atoll in the world. The site covers an area of approximately 37,000 hectares, with the marine area extending 3 nautical miles out to sea. The main feature of the island is Lake Tejano, which was once a lagoon on the atoll. The lake is the largest of the Pacific Islands (15,500 hectares), is brackish and contains many rugged limestone islands and endemic species. Most of Rennell is covered in dense forest, with an average canopy height of 20 meters. Combined with the strong climatic influences from frequent hurricanes, the site is a true natural laboratory for scientific research. The site is under traditional land ownership and management.
New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands
The New Zealand Subantarctic Islands consist of five island groups (Snares, Bounty, Antipodes, Auckland and Campbell Islands) in the Southern Ocean southeast of New Zealand. Located between the Antarctic and Subtropical Convergence Zones and the ocean, the islands are characterized by high productivity, biodiversity, wildlife population density and endemism of birds, plants and invertebrates. The islands are known for the large and diverse populations of pelagic seabirds and penguins that nest on the islands. A total of 126 bird species are found on the islands, including 40 seabird species, five of which are found nowhere else in the world.