2 Aug 2010

UNESCO / NEW WORLD HERITAGE SITES

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee, meeting in Brasilia, inscribes several new natural and cultural sites to its World Heritage List. UNESCO

Posted at: August 2, 2010 3:18 pm

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STORY: UNESCO / NEW WORLD HERITAGE SITES
TRT: 2.07
SOURCE: UNESCO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE -1996 -NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA, TANZANIA

1.	Pan left, landscape
2.	Various shots, Maasai herders

FILE – UNDATED - SARAZM ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, TAJIKISTAN

3.	Various shots, archaeological site

FILE - UNDATED - CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION OF SUCEVIŢA MONASTERY, ROMANIA

4.	Zoom in, church
5.	Zoom in, architectural detail

FILE – 1992 - BIKINI ATOLL, MARSHALL ISLANDS
6.	Aerial shot, island
7.	Pan right, coral reef
8.	Various shots, underwater views, sunken ships

FILE - 2008 - HAHOE AND YANGDONG VILLAGES, REPUBLIC OF KOREA

9.	Various shots, historic villages

FILE – UNDATED - EPISCOPAL CITY OF ALBI, FRANCE

10.	Tilt down, cathedral
11.	Tilt down, architectural detail with city in the background
12.	Various shots, cathedral interior

FILE – UNDATED – SHAOLIN TEMPLE, CHINA

13.	Various shots, archaeological sites

FILE - 2003 - PIRIN NATIONAL PARK - BULGARIA

14.	Zoom out, landscape
15.	Med shot, bear

FILE - 2006 - SÃO FRANCISCO SQUARE, SÃO CRISTÓVÃO, BRAZIL

16.	Pan right, São Francisco Square

FILE - 2006 - HISTORIC CENTRE AND SCHLOSS EGGENBERG, GRAZ, AUSTRIA

17.	Various shots, exterior Schloss Eggenberg
18.	Various shots, interior Schloss Eggenberg

FILE - 2006 - AUSTRALIAN CONVICT SITES, AUSTRALIA

19.	Aerial shot, convict site
20.	Various shots, prison interiors

FILE – UNDATED - PHOENIX ISLANDS PROTECTED AREA, KIRIBATI

21.	Wide shot, island
22.	Various shots, sharks and marine life

FILE – UNDATED - CAMINO REAL DE TIERRA ADENTRO, MEXICO

23.	Various shots, temples' exteriors
24.	Tilt down, temple interior

STORYLINE:

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee, currently meeting in Brasilia, Brazil, has approved 29 new natural, cultural and mixed sites inscribed or extended during the current session.

The 34th session of the World Heritage Committee is being held under the chairmanship of the Minister of Culture from Brazil, João Luiz da Silva Ferreira. The meeting opened on 25 July and will continue through to 3 August. A total of 38 sites have been considered for inscription on the World Heritage List.

The new approved sites are in Sri Lanka, the United States of America, the United Republic of Tanzania, Saudi Arabia, Australia, India, Iran, Marshall Islands, Republic of Korea, Viet Nam, China, Tajikistan, France, Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Austria, Romania, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Kiribati, Bulgaria and Russia.

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania contains the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, which is the world's largest caldera, and the Olduvai Gorge, one of the world's most important pre-historic sites, where anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey made many of their greatest discoveries. The area has global importance for biodiversity conservation and was first inscribed on the World Heritage List as a natural site in 1979.

In the wake of World War II, in a move closely related to the beginnings of the Cold War, the United States of America decided to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall archipelago. After the displacement of the local inhabitants, 67 nuclear tests were carried out from 1946 to 1958, including the explosion of the first H-bomb in 1952. Bikini Atoll has conserved direct tangible evidence that is highly significant in conveying the power of the nuclear tests, the sunken ships sent to the bottom of the lagoon by the tests in 1946 and the gigantic Bravo crater.

The Historic Villages of Hahoe and Yangdong in the Republic of Korea were founded in the 14th-15th centuries and are seen as the two most representative historic clan villages in the Republic of Korea. Their layout and location - sheltered by forested mountains and facing out onto a river and open agricultural fields – reflect the distinctive aristocratic Confucian culture of the early part of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910).

São Francisco Square in the town of São Cristovão, Brazil, is a quadrilateral open space surrounded by substantial early buildings such as São Francisco Church and convent, the Church and Santa Casa da Misericórdia, the Provincial Palace and the associated houses of different historical periods surrounding the Square. This monumental ensemble, together with the surrounding 18th- and 19th- century houses, creates an urban landscape which reflects the history of the town since its origin.

Graz is an exemplary model of the living heritage of a central European urban complex influenced by the secular presence of the Habsburgs. The site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1999. The extension concerns the castle, Schloss Eggenberg, located about three kilometres west of the historic centre of Graz.

A selection of 11 penal sites, are among the thousands established by the British Empire on Australian soil in the 18th and 19th centuries. They are located on the fertile coastal strip from which the Aboriginal peoples were then forced back, mainly around Sydney and in Tasmania, as well as on Norfolk Island and in Fremantle. They housed tens of thousands of men, women and children condemned by British justice to transportation to the convict colonies.

The Phoenix Island Protected Area (PIPA) in Kiribati is a 408,250 square kilometres expanse of marine and terrestrial habitats in the Southern Pacific Ocean. The property encompasses the Phoenix Island Group, one of three island groups in Kiribati, and is the largest designated Marine Protected Area in the world.

Camino Real de Tierra Adentro in Mexico was the Royal Inland Road, also known as the Silver Route. The inscribed property consists of 55 sites and five existing World Heritage sites lying along a 1400 km section of this 2600 kilometres route that extends north from Mexico City to Texas and New Mexico, United States of America. The route was actively used as a trade route for 300 years, from the mid-16th to the 19th centuries.