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			\| WHS = ] / ]
		⚫	\| Image = ]
			\| State Party = {{FIN}} and {{SWE}}
			\| Type = Natural
			\| Criteria = viii
			\| ID = 898
			\| Region = ]
			\| Year = 2000
			\| Session = 24th
			\| Extension = 2006
			\| Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/898
			}}

	'''The High Coast''' (]: '''Höga kusten''') is a part of the ] coast on the ], situated in the municipalities of ], ] and ] and notable as the "type area" for research on ], the phenomenon having been first recognised and studied there. Since the last ] the land has risen 800 ], which accounds for the unusual landscape with tall cliff formations.		'''The High Coast''' (]: '''Höga kusten''') is a part of the ] coast on the ], situated in the municipalities of ], ] and ] and notable as the "type area" for research on ], the phenomenon having been first recognised and studied there. Since the last ] the land has risen 800 ], which accounds for the unusual landscape with tall cliff formations.

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UNESCO World Heritage Site

Kvarken Archipelago / High Coast
UNESCO World Heritage Site

Criteria	Natural: viii
Reference	898
Inscription	2000 (24th Session)
Extensions	2006

The High Coast (Swedish: Höga kusten) is a part of the Swedish coast on the Gulf of Bothnia, situated in the municipalities of Kramfors, Härnösand and Örnsköldsvik and notable as the "type area" for research on isostacy, the phenomenon having been first recognised and studied there. Since the last ice age the land has risen 800 m, which accounds for the unusual landscape with tall cliff formations.

UNESCO, while inscribing the area on the World Heritage List in 2000, remarked that "the High Coast site affords outstanding opportunities for the understanding of the important processes that formed the glaciated and land uplift areas of the Earth's surface".

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South	Agricultural landscape of southern Öland Hanseatic Town of Visby Naval Port of Karlskrona Rock Carvings in Tanum Grimeton Radio Station
North	Church Village of Gammelstad, Luleå Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland Gästgivars Jon-Lars Bommars Erik-Anders High Coast/Kvarken Archipelago Laponian area Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain, Falun Struve Geodetic Arc
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63°00′N 18°25′E / 63.000°N 18.417°E / 63.000; 18.417

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