This article lists the sites registered with World Heritage Unesco who are in New Zealand.
Understand
The New Zealand ratify the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on . The first protected sites were inscribed in 1990.
The New Zealand has 3 sites registered with World Heritage, 2 natural and 1 mixed.
The country has also submitted 7 sites to the tentative list, 3 cultural, 3 natural and 1 mixed.
Listing
The following sites are listed as World Heritage.
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New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands 1 Snares Islands 2 Bounty Islands 3 Antipodes Islands 4 Auckland Islands 5 Campbell Islands | Natural | (ix), (x) | The site consists of five archipelagos (Snares, Bounty, Antipodes, Auckland and Campbell Islands) located in the Southern Ocean, south-eastern New Zealand. With the islands lying between the Antarctic and subtropical convergences, marine productivity is very high, there is a rich biological diversity, high population densities for wildlife and a significant endemism of bird, plant and animal species. invertebrates. They are particularly notable for the abundance and diversity of pelagic birds and nesting penguins. There are 126 bird species in total, 40 of which are seabirds, 5 of which do not breed anywhere else. | ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||
Te Wahipounamu 6 Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park 7 Fiordland National Park 8 Mount Aspiring National Park 9 Westland Tai Poutini National Park | Natural | (vii), (viii), (ix), (x) | In the southwest of New Zealand, this park offers a landscape, shaped by successive glaciations, of fjords, rocky coasts, high cliffs, lakes and waterfalls. Two-thirds of its area is covered with southern beech and podocarp forests, some of which are over 800 years old. There is the kea, the only alpine parrot in the world, as well as the takahe, a large, rare and endangered runner bird. | ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 Tongariro National Park | Mixed | (vi), (vii), (viii) | In 1993, Tongariro became the first property inscribed on the World Heritage List under the revised cultural criterion concerning cultural landscapes. The mountains located in the center of the park have cultural and religious significance for the Maori people and symbolize the spiritual links between this human community and its environment. The park contains active and extinct volcanoes, a diverse range of ecosystems and particularly spectacular landscapes. | ![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||
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