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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 November 22, 1984. 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.

Site	Type	Criterion	Description	Drawing
New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands ​-48.016667166.5333331 Snares Islands ​-47.75179.052 Bounty Islands ​-49.6667178.7666673 Antipodes Islands ​-50.7166.0833334 Auckland Islands ​-52.54169.1455 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.	UNESCO sheet
Te Wahipounamu ​-43.733170.16 Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park ​-45.416667167.7166677 Fiordland National Park ​-44.383333168.7333338 Mount Aspiring National Park ​-43.383333170.1833339 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.	UNESCO sheet
-39.291175.56210 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.	UNESCO sheet
Criteria legend (i) Represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. (ii) To testify to a considerable exchange of influences during a given period or in a specific cultural area, on the development of architecture or technology, monumental arts, city planning or the creation of landscapes. (iii) To bring a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or disappeared civilization. (iv) To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates one or more significant periods in human history. (v) Be a prominent example of traditional human settlement, traditional use of land or sea. (vi) To be directly or materially associated with events or living traditions, ideas, beliefs or artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (vii) Represent natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. (viii) To be eminently representative examples of the great stages in the history of the Earth. (ix) To be eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes underway in the evolution and development of ecosystems. (x) Contain the most representative natural habitats and the most important for conservation in situ of biological diversity.

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