VOLCANO, TRADING CITIES AND WHALING TOWN GIVEN UN WORLD HERITAGE STATUS

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VOLCANO, TRADING CITIES AND WHALING TOWN GIVEN UN WORLD HERITAGE STATUS
New York, Jun 22 2013 7:00PM
Mount Fuji was today recognized as a United Nation educational and
cultural agency's World Heritage site, along with seven others on a
list that for the first time includes sites in Fiji and Qatar.

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's
<"www.unesco.org">(UNESCO) World Heritage Committee, meeting this
month in Cambodia, is reviewing 32 proposed sites and reviewing
several already on the list.

In selecting Fuijisan, as it is officially known, the Committee said
the beauty of the solitary, often snow-capped, stratovolcano "rising
above villages and tree-fringed sea and lakes has long inspired
artists and poets and been the object of pilgrimages."

In the 12th century, Fujisan became the centre of training for ascetic
Buddhism. The inscribed property consists of 25 sacred sites including
Sengen-jinja shrines, Oshi lodging houses and waterfalls.

The Committee today also selected to honour Al Zubarah Archaeological
Site in Qatar, country's first inscription. The walled coastal town of
Al Zubarah in the Gulf flourished as a pearling and trading centre in
the late 18th century and early 19th centuries, before it was
destroyed and finally abandoned in the 1900s. Its remains, which
include palaces, mosques, streets and fishermen's huts, were protected
by a layer of sand blown from the desert.

UNESCO called the site "an outstanding testimony to an urban trading
and pearl-diving tradition" which eventually led to the emergence of
modern day Gulf States.

Also honoured for the first time today, Fiji's Levuka Historical Port
Town has been added to the list.

The town and its low line of buildings set among coconut and mango
trees along the beach front was the first colonial capital of Fiji,
ceded to the British in 1874.

Noting its "unique landscape," the UN agency said the site was a rare
example of a late colonial port town that was influenced in its
development by the indigenous community which continued to outnumber
the European settlers.

In Portugal, the Committee honoured the University of Coimbra which
over seven centuries became a reference in the development of other
institutions of higher learning in the Portuguese-speaking world.

The UN agency also inscribed the Historic Centre of Agadez in Niger
which is known as the gateway to the Sahara desert. Developed in the
15th and 16th centuries, the historic centre of the city was an
important crossroads of the caravan trade. Its structures include a 27
meters high minaret made entirely of brick, the highest such structure
in the world.

From Canada, UNESCO honoured the Red Bay Basque whaling station
established by mariners in the 16th century and now provides "the
earliest, most complete and best preserved testimony of the European
whaling tradition." The station was used for 70 years before the local
whale population was depleted.

In a separate meeting, the UN Committee inscribed the Cultural
Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces in China. Created by the Hani
people over the past 1,300 years, the terraces are a complex system of
channels to bring water from the forested mountaintops. They are used
by 82 villages for farming that involves buffalos, cattle, ducks, fish
and eel, and supports the production of the area's primary crop, red
rice.

The Committee also honoured Lesotho's Sehlabathebe National Park as an
extension to the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park in South Africa, which is
now to be named Maloti Drakensberg Tranboundary World Heritage Site.
Members praised the "spectacularly beautiful watershed area" that
hosts flora and fauna of scientific importance. It is also home to
three endangered species, the Maloti Minnow, a species of fish found
only in the Park, and the Cape and Bearded Vultures.

Also today, UNESCO held an inauguration ceremony at Vietnman's My Son
Sanctuary which has been undergoing 16 years of excavation and
restoration work. The tower temples and monuments were once part of
the religious and political capital of the Champa Kingdom

Under steady rainfall, dancers and musicians lined the path leading
through lush forest to the G Group of monuments, where a brief
religious ceremony was held to consecrate the restored 16 structures.

UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova awarded certificates to these
local workers in recognition of their contribution to help excavate,
clean and document artefacts, and restore the brick structures using
techniques specially developed for the purpose.

A World Heritage Site since 1999, the My Son Sanctuary, located in
Quang Nam province amidst a hilly landscape, comprises eight groups of
71 monuments built throughout the 7th to 13th centuries.

The site is one of six, along with Preah Vihear pictured above,
included in a sub-regional exhibit now on show in museums in Cambodia,
Laos and Vietnam. The project, which also includes pieces from Angkor,
Vat Phou, the Ho Citadel and the Thang Long Citadel aims to highlight
the interconnections of these sites and populations, in addition to
the role of Southeast Asia in global history.

The exhibits consist of panels developed by the Preah Norodom
Sihanouk-Angkor Museum centres around the theme of the historical
context and discovery of the "274 Buddhist statues from Banteay Kdei
in Angkor". They follow the common themes developed by UNESCO and
experts on "Natural World" and "Trade and Exchange".

Jun 22 2013 7:00PM
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