World Heritage List
1978
- Galápagos Islands (Ecuador)
1979
- Everglades National Park (United States of America)
- Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek (Canada) # * 1
1981
- Great Barrier Reef (Australia)
1982
- Aldabra Atoll (Seychelles)
- Lord Howe Island Group (Australia)
1983
1986
- St Kilda (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
1987
- Sian Ka'an (Mexico)
- Sundarbans National Park (India)
1989
- Banc d'Arguin National Park (Mauritania)
1991
- Komodo National Park (Indonesia)
- Shark Bay, Western Australia (Australia)
- Ujung Kulon National Park (Indonesia)
1993
- Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (Philippines)
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino (Mexico)
1994
- Ha Long Bay - Cat Ba Archipelago (Viet Nam)
1995
- Gough and Inaccessible Islands (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) 2
1996
- Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (Belize)
1997
- Cocos Island National Park (Costa Rica)
- Heard and McDonald Islands (Australia)
- Macquarie Island (Australia)
- The Sundarbans (Bangladesh)
1998
- East Rennell (Solomon Islands)
- New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands (New Zealand)
1999
- Area de Conservación Guanacaste (Costa Rica)
- Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture (Spain)
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park (South Africa)
- Península Valdés (Argentina)
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park (Philippines)
2000
- High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago (Finland) *
2001
2004
- Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve (Russian Federation)
2005
2006
- Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary (Colombia)
2008
- Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems (France)
- Socotra Archipelago (Yemen)
- Surtsey (Iceland)
2009
- Wadden Sea (Germany) *
2010
- Papahānaumokuākea (United States of America)
- Phoenix Islands Protected Area (Kiribati)
2011
- Ningaloo Coast (Australia)
- Ogasawara Islands (Japan)
2012
- Rock Islands Southern Lagoon (Palau)
2016
2019
- French Austral Lands and Seas (France)
Notes
Extension of the "Glacier Bay/Wrangell/St Elias/Kluane" property.
Extension of "Gough Island Wildlife Reserve".
#: As for 19 Natural and Mixed Properties inscribed for geological values before 1994, criteria numbering of this property has changed. See Decision 30.COM 8D.1
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Cultural Natural Mixed
Cultural Natural Mixed
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