Mons Klint

Baltic Sea
Lies at "the easternmost part of the Island of Møn in the southeastern Danish archipelago in the Baltic Sea" (AB ev)

Late Pleistocene
formed by fast flowing Pleistocene glaciers: "Approximately 17,000 years ago, during a period known as the Weichselian glaciation, immense glaciers pushed and folded the ancient seabed, thrusting the chalk upwards to create the impressive landscape we see today. This timeframe, falling between 129,000 and 11,700 years ago, places the formation of Møns Klint firmly within the Late Pleistocene." (Google gemini)

Tectonic Processes
"a well exposed cross section through one of the world's largest glaciotectonic complexes" (OUV crit viii)

Scientific Developmenst
the site has played a key-role in the scientific history and acknowledgement of glaciotectonics, including important methodological contributions to the scientific discipline of glaciotectonism.

Beech forests
"crowned by green beech tree forests on top" (OUV statement)

Untranslated toponyms
Klint = "a geological term of Scandinavian origin describing a coastal cliff or escarpment; the term has its roots in the Old Norse word "klint," meaning cliff." (also add Stevns Klint)

Fossils
The Cretaceous chalk is rich in fossils, particularly of the diverse benthic fauna which are constantly exposed by erosion and found on surrounding beaches. (AB ev)

Inscribed on a single criterion only
Crit VIII

World Biosphere Reserve
In addition, Møns Klint overlaps with the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Møn (AB ev)

Natura 2000
In addition, Møns Klint overlaps with a Natura 2000 Site (area no. 171) (AB ev)

Dark Sky Preserve
"Møn and Nyord is the first place in the world to simultaneously become both a Dark Sky Community and a Dark Sky Park."
Møns Klint overlaps with ... a Dark Sky Park. (AB ev)
https://darksky.org/news/mon-and-nyord-designated-scandinavias-first-ida-dark-sky-places/

(Plus a New Connection: Chalk)
(Plus a New Connection: Flint)

Reminder, as the message just dropped to the previous page:

Will do Mount Mulanje NP

Cultural WHS set within an IUCN recognised protected area
includes the entirety of two adjacent but distinct protected areas: Mulanje Mountain Forest Reserve and the Michese Forest Reserve. These are both national forests and categorized as IUCN Category VI protected areas (IUCN ev)

World Biosphere Reserve
IUCN also notes that the Mount Mulanje Biosphere Reserve overlaps with the nominated property (IUCN ev)

Granite rock formations
this vast granite massif (ICOMOS ev)

Inselberg
Mount Mulanje, among the largest inselbergs in the world (ICOMOS ev)

Pictographs
The Machemba rock shelter is covered with geometric rock art paintings dated to the Stone Age. (ICOMOS ev)

Sacred mountain
The spiritual power of Mount Mulanje can be harnessed by diviners and spiritual healers (ICOMOS ev)

Iron Age
it has been attested that people were present around the place from at least the Middle Stone Age through Late Stone Age to Iron Age (ICOMOS ev)

Coffee, Tobacco
Simultaneously, first cotton, tobacco and coffee plantations developed around Mulanje, later replaced mostly by tea estates which are still a significant feature of the landscape today. (ICOMOS ev)

Tea
tea estates which are still a significant feature of the landscape today. Among the oldest in Africa, the tea estates that spread in the southern part of the nominated property (ICOMOS ev)

Taboo
based on established spiritual practices and taboos. (ICOMOS ev)

Possible new connections: Cedar

Marata Military Landscape :

Reduced from broader TWHS - Kasa Fort, also known as Padmadurg Fort, as well as Rangana Fort were P
part of the tentative site.

Entire Island - Suvarnadurg and Sindhudurg Forts

jonathanfr has just sent me a spreadsheet with over 100 more for 2025... you'll see them appearing over the weekend

I just noticed that Megaliths of Carnac misses from the Bay of Biscay connection.