World Heritage Site

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Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain range, lake, desert, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated for the international World Heritage program administered by UNESCO.

The program aims to catalogue, name, and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind (exact criteria (http://whc.unesco.org/criteria.htm#debut)). Listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund under certain conditions. The program was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage that was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972.

As of 2004, a total of 788 sites have been included in the list (611 cultural, 154 natural and 23 mixed properties in 134 States Parties).

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List of World Heritage Sites

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External links

UNESCO World Heritage Sites (http://whc.unesco.org) - Official site
List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31) - Official site
WHTour (http://www.world-heritage-tour.org) - The World Heritage List in panographies and virtual tours
VRheritage.org (http://www.vrheritage.org) - documentation of World Heritage Sites
Worldheritage-Forum (http://worldheritage-forum.net/en/) - Weblog and Information on World Heritage Issues
Croatia World Heritage (http://www.find-croatia.com/unesco-heritage.html) - World Heritage in Croatia - UNESCO's sites
UNESCO World Heritage List (http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/world.heritage.html) - complete list with links
Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage at Law-Ref.org (http://law-ref.org/HERITAGE/index.html) - fully indexed and crosslinked with other documentsaf:W�relderfenisgebied