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The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/17/41.COM/8B and WHC/17/41.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Taputapuātea, France, on the World Heritage List as a cultural landscape on the basis of criteria (iii), (iv) and (vi);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Taputapuātea is a cultural landscape and seascape on Raiatea Island. Raiatea is at the centre of the “Polynesian Triangle,” a vast section of the Pacific Ocean dotted with islands, the last part of the globe to be settled by humans. At the heart of the property is the ...
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