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Criterion (viii)

An outstanding record of the major stages of Earth’s history: the record of life, geological processes or landforms. 101 properties on the List meet it, 25 of them under this criterion alone.

Site	Country	Year	Type	Criteria
Galapagos Islands	Ecuador	1978	Natural	vii viii ix x
Nahanni National Park Reserve	Canada	1978	Natural	vii viii
Yellowstone National Park	United States	1978	Natural	vii viii ix x
Dinosaur Provincial Park	Canada	1979	Natural	vii viii
Everglades National Park in danger	United States	1979	Natural	viii ix x
Grand Canyon National Park	United States	1979	Natural	vii viii ix x
Kluane / Wrangell – St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek	Canada United States	1979	Natural	vii viii ix x
Ngorongoro Conservation Area	Tanzania	1979	Mixed	iv vii viii ix x
Plitvice Lakes National Park	Croatia	1979	Natural	vii viii ix
Virunga National Park in danger	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1979	Natural	vii viii x
Durmitor National Park	Montenegro	1980	Natural	vii viii x
Great Barrier Reef	Australia	1981	Natural	vii viii ix x
Los Glaciares National Park	Argentina	1981	Natural	vii viii
Mammoth Cave National Park	United States	1981	Natural	vii viii x
Willandra Lakes Region	Australia	1981	Mixed	iii viii
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve in danger	Honduras	1982	Natural	vii viii ix x
Tasmanian Wilderness	Australia	1982	Mixed	iii iv vi vii viii ix x
Tassili n'Ajjer	Algeria	1982	Mixed	i iii vii viii
Great Smoky Mountains National Park	United States	1983	Natural	vii viii ix x
Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve	France	1983	Natural	vii viii x
Pirin National Park	Bulgaria	1983	Natural	vii viii ix
Sangay National Park	Ecuador	1983	Natural	vii viii ix x
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves	Costa Rica Panama	1983	Natural	vii viii ix x
Vallée de Mai	Seychelles	1983	Natural	vii viii ix x
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site	Canada	1984	Natural	vii viii
Yosemite National Park	United States	1984	Natural	vii viii
Huascarán National Park	Peru	1985	Natural	vii viii
Giant's Causeway	United Kingdom	1986	Natural	vii viii
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia	Australia	1986	Natural	viii ix x
Škocjan Caves	Slovenia	1986	Natural	vii viii
Gros Morne National Park	Canada	1987	Natural	vii viii
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park	United States	1987	Natural	viii
Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park	Australia	1987	Mixed	v vi vii viii
Wet Tropics of Queensland	Australia	1988	Natural	vii viii ix x
Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls	Zimbabwe Zambia	1989	Natural	vii viii
Te Wahipounamu	New Zealand	1990	Natural	vii viii ix x
Tongariro National Park	New Zealand	1990	Mixed	vi vii viii
Shark Bay	Australia	1991	Natural	vii viii ix x
K'gari	Australia	1992	Natural	vii viii ix
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte)	Australia	1994	Natural	viii ix
Canaima National Park	Venezuela	1994	Natural	vii viii ix x
Ha Long Bay	Vietnam	1994	Natural	vii viii
Carlsbad Caverns National Park	United States	1995	Natural	vii viii
Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst	Slovakia Hungary	1995	Natural	viii
Messel pit	Germany	1995	Natural	viii
Lake Baikal	Russia Soviet Union	1996	Natural	vii viii ix x
Laponian National Park	Sweden	1996	Mixed	iii v vii viii ix
Volcanoes of Kamchatka	Russia	1996	Natural	vii viii ix x
Heard Island and McDonald Islands	Australia	1997	Natural	viii ix
Lake Turkana National Parks in danger	Kenya	1997	Natural	viii x
Macquarie Island	Australia	1997	Natural	vii viii
Morne Trois Pitons National Park	Dominica	1997	Natural	viii x
Pyrénées – Mont Perdu World Heritage Site	Spain France	1997	Mixed	iii iv v vii viii
The Dolomites	Italy	1998	Natural	vii viii
Desembarco del Granma National Park	Cuba	1999	Natural	vii viii
Lorentz National Park	Indonesia	1999	Natural	viii ix x
Miguasha National Park	Canada	1999	Natural	viii
Aeolian Islands	Italy	2000	Natural	viii
Gunung Mulu National Park	Malaysia	2000	Natural	vii viii ix x
High Coast/Kvarken Archipelago	Finland Sweden	2000	Natural	viii
Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks	Argentina	2000	Natural	viii
Jungfrau-Aletsch protected area	Switzerland	2001	Natural	vii viii ix
Jurassic Coast	United Kingdom	2001	Natural	viii
Monte San Giorgio	Switzerland	2003	Natural	viii
Phong Nha–Ke Bang National Park	Vietnam	2003	Natural	viii ix x
Purnululu National Park	Australia	2003	Natural	vii viii
Three Parallel Rivers National Park	China	2003	Natural	vii viii ix x
Ilulissat Icefjord	Greenland	2004	Natural	vii viii
Pitons	Saint Lucia	2004	Natural	vii viii
Vredefort crater	South Africa	2005	Natural	viii
Wadi Al-Hitan	Egypt	2005	Natural	viii
West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord	Norway	2005	Natural	vii viii
Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes	South Korea	2007	Natural	vii viii
South China Karst	China	2007	Natural	vii viii
Teide National Park	Spain	2007	Natural	vii viii
Glarus thrust	Switzerland	2008	Natural	viii
Joggins Fossil Cliffs	Canada	2008	Natural	viii
Wadden Sea	Denmark Germany Netherlands	2009	Natural	viii ix x
China Danxia	China	2010	Natural	vii viii
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument	United States	2010	Mixed	iii vi viii ix x
Chengjiang Fossil Site	China	2012	Natural	viii
Lena Pillars	Russia Soviet Union	2012	Natural	viii
El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve	Mexico	2013	Natural	vii viii x
Etna Park	Italy	2013	Natural	viii
Namib Sand Sea	Namibia	2013	Natural	vii viii ix x
Pamir National Park	Tajikistan	2013	Natural	vii viii
Stevns Klint	Denmark	2014	Natural	viii
Tràng An	Vietnam	2014	Mixed	v vii viii
Dasht-e Lut	Iran	2016	Natural	vii viii
Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve	Canada	2016	Natural	viii
Chaîne des Puys - Limagne fault tectonic arena	France	2018	Natural	viii
Makhonjwa Mountains	South Africa	2018	Natural	viii
Vatnajökull National Park	Iceland	2019	Natural	viii
Anticosti	Canada	2023	Natural	viii
Evaporitic Karst and Caves of Northern Apennines	Italy	2023	Natural	viii
Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique	France	2023	Natural	viii x
Badain Jaran Desert	China	2024	Natural	vii viii
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park	Brazil	2024	Natural	vii viii x
Cavernas do Peruaçu Environmental Protection Area	Brazil	2025	Natural	vii viii
Møns Klint	Denmark	2025	Natural	viii
The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfjord – Evolution and Climate Adaptation in the Earliest Eocene	Denmark	2026	Natural	viii

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