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Mount Songshang is considered to be the central sacred mountain of China. At the foot of this 1500 metre high mountain, close to the city of Dengfeng in Henan province and spread over a 40 square-kilometre circle, stand eight clusters of buildings and sites, including three Han Que gates - remains of the oldest religious edifices in China -, temples, the Zhougong Sundial Platform and the Dengfeng Observatory. Constructed over the course of nine dynasties, these buildings are reflections of different ways of perceiving the centre of heaven and earth and the power of the mountain as a centre for religious devotion. The historical monuments of Dengfeng include some of the best examples of ancient Chinese buildings devoted to ritual, science, technology and education.
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Any list that includes Jodrell Bank, the Forth Bridge, Blackpool and the Turks and Caicos Islands certainly doesn't lack variety.  But what all 38 sites have in common is a wow factor and a cultural resonance that makes them real contenders to sit alongside The Pyramids and Red Square in this most distinguished of gatherings.

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  • Arbroath Abbey (Scotland)
  • The Birmingham Jewellery Quarter (England)
  • The Birth of the Railway Age serial nomination (England)
  • Blackpool (England)
  • The heroic period of civil and marine engineering in England 1822-1866, Bristol (England)
  • Bronte Landscape and Haworth Village (England)
  • Brunels Great Western Railway (England)
  • Buildings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow (Scotland)
  • Chatham Dockyard and its Defences (England)
  • Chester Rows (England)
  • Colchester, Camulodunum and Colonia Victricensis (England)
  • Creswell Crags (England)
  • The Hill of Derry (Northern Ireland)
  • The Dover Strait (England)
  • The Flow Country (Scotland)
  • The Forth Bridge (Scotland)
  • The Fountain Cavern (Anguilla)
  • Gorhams Cave (Gibraltar)
  • Gracehill Conservation area (Northern Ireland)
  • Jodrell Bank Observatory (England)
  • The Lake District (England)
  • The Laxey Valley (Isle of Man)
  • Historic Lincoln (England)
  • Malone and Stranmillis Historic Urban landscape (Northern Ireland)
  • Merthyr Tydfil (Wales)
  • Merton Priory (England)
  • Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland (Scotland)
  • The Royal Sites of Ireland Navan Fort (Northern Ireland)
  • The Norfolk and Suffolk Broads (England)
  • Slate Industry of North Wales (Wales)
  • Offas Dyke (England/Wales border)
  • St Andrews, Medieval Burgh and Links (Scotland)
  • Island of Saint Helena (Saint Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean)
  • Turks and Caicos Islands (Caribbean)
  • Tynwald Hill and environs Norse assembly sites of North West Europe (Isle of Man)
  • Former RAF Upper Heyford (England)
  • Wye Valley and Forest of Dean (England/Wales border)
  • City of York (England)
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Offa's Dyke, the Forth Rail Bridge and the Jodrell Bank Observatory are among nearly 40 places which will compete to become World Heritage sites.
The 38-strong list also includes Brunel's Great Western Railway, the Bronte Landscape and Haworth Village, West Yorkshire, Creswell Crags in Derbyshire, the city of York and the Dover Strait, which will all compete to be nominated by the Government next year.
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The Acropolis in Athens, the elaborate temples of Angkor in Cambodia, and the stone statues of tiny Easter Island, home for 1000 years to the most isolated human community on Earth. These are among the 878 World Heritage Sites (both cultural and natural) protected by UNESCO as places of "outstanding universal value" to humankind. As such, each contains extraordinary creative masterpieces from lost cultural traditions. And each represents a vestige of the past that stands out as a powerful source of inspiration to people across the planet.
Yet one aspect of our cultural heritage - astronomy - is woefully under-represented on the World Heritage List.

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JAXA and UNESCO concluded Memorandum of Unity for Monitoring World Heritage Sites
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) concluded a Memorandum of Unity (MOU) for cooperating in monitoring World Heritage Sites using the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "DAICHI" (ALOS) to watch and protect the common legacy of all mankind.
Since 2003, UNESCO has been monitoring the World Heritage Sites by satellite to protect them in corporation with the European Space Agency (ESA) under the "open initiative on the use of space technologies to support the World Heritage".
Meanwhile, JAXA has been monitoring all over the Earth for about three years through the "DAICHI" since its launch in January 2006. Our accumulated observation data includes that of World Heritage Sites.
Under the abovementioned background, JAXA and UNESCO had been discussing the possibility of using data acquired by the "DAICHI," and decided to conclude a MOU.
Under the MOU, JAXA agrees to acquire image data on 10 World Heritage Sites in Japan and other foreign countries, mainly Asian countries, about twice a year to provide the data to UNESCO. In addition, JAXA plans to make a data base of World Heritage Site images acquired to date to publish them. UNESCO will use the data to help protect World Heritage Sites with other related research institutions in the world and the hosts of the Heritage Sites.
JAXA and UNESCO will cooperatively do our best to carry out our respective roles to protect the World Heritage Sites, which have a common universal value for all mankind, and to ensure they are inherited to the next generation.
JAXA and UNESCO held a ceremony for concluding the MOU at the JAXA Tokyo office on December 2, 2008, and President Tachikawa of JAXA and Director General Matsuura of UNESCO signed the pact. Vice Minister Sakata of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT), Mr. Yamamoto, the Japanese ambassador to UNESCO and other MEXT and UNESCO personnel were also present.

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Antonine Wall
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An ancient fortified wall which formed the north-west frontier of the Roman Empire has been named a World Heritage Site by Unesco.
The Antonine Wall, which stretched 39 miles across Scotland's central belt, was given the prized status at a summit of the United Nations cultural body in Canada.

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Joggins Fossil Cliffs
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The dramatic Joggins Fossil Cliffs along the shore of the Bay of Fundy, recognised as the site where the earliest scientific evidence of reproductive life on land was discovered in the mid-19th century, will now serve a new international audience as Canada's 15th UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The sea cliffs have been dubbed the "Coal Age Galapagos" for their rich deposits of fossils from layers of ancient ecosystems. Each time the high tide from the Atlantic Ocean licks at the cliffs, which can reach heights of 30 metres, the gently dipping rock layers are eroded, exposing embedded evidence of ancient vegetation and life.

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has added 15 cultural heritage properties of Nepal in World Heritage Tentative list.
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South African world heritage site, the Vredefort Dome, is under threat, the SABC reported Monday.
The area around one of the world's oldest meteorite craters is experiencing major development as tourists and investors flock there.
Geologist Frans Waanders said people and even scientists chipped off pieces of rock during visits.
Resident Johannes van der Merwe said illegal development was taking place and infrastructure was under threat.
He said raw sewerage was being pumped into the Vaal river, threatening the ecosystem.
Three golfing estates were being built in the heart of the dome.
Chairperson of the Dome Conservation Area, Stephen de la Harpe, has blamed state departments for lack of planning
The Free State government said a new management plan would be implemented within months

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Vietnam’s World Heritage Sites
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Out of the world cultural heritage sites recognised by UNESCO, Vietnam possesses three sites (including the old imperial city of Hue, My Son Sanctuary and the ancient town of Hoi An), two natural heritage sites (Ha Long Bay and Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park), a heritage site with geomorphologic, geological, cultural and historical values and two intangible heritages (Hue royal court music and the space of Tay Nguyen (The Central Highlands) gong culture).

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