Britain is attempting to raise among the world’s crucial bird migratory paths and Shetland’s Iron Age settlements to the list of the world’s most substantial cultural and historical websites.
They are amongst 5 examples Britain has actually contributed to its “tentative list” of locations it wants to be thought about as Unesco world heritage websites. The others are York city centre, Birkenhead Park and the Little Cayman marine parks and secured location in the UK abroad area.
Two other websites — the Flow Country in northern Scotland and the Gracehill Moravian Church settlement in Northern Ireland — are already on the list waiting for approval by the United Nations body.
The Iron Age settlement of Jarlshof consists of artefacts dated to 2,500BC
The peatland swimming pools in blanket bog at Forsinard RSPB Reserve, in the Flow Country
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Britain has 33 world heritage websites, varying from Stonehenge and the Tower of London in the