Tag Archives: world heritage site

Kvarken archipelago

The Kvarken Archipelago is Finlands seventh World Heritage Site just newly inscribed (its shared with Sweden which was inscribed earlier) and Finlands first natural site rather than manmade building to make it onto the list, see this article. It features unusual moraines or stone formations and is part of a feature which in 2000 years [...]

Struve Geodetic Arc

There are Six world heritage sites in Finland at the moment, heres the list, Suomenlinna, Old Rauma, Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki,Petäjävesi Old Church,Verla Groundwood and Board Mill, and Struve Geodetic Arc.
I found out by accident that I’d visited two already, Rauma and Suomenlinna, & they don’t differ from most of the others [...]

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