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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".

External links

• Official Höga Kusten website
• Höga Kusten info, from Örnsköldsvik municipal website
• Höga Kusten Bridge
• World Heritage profile

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East	Birka and Hovgården Engelsberg Ironworks Royal Domain of Drottningholm Skogskyrkogården
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
Shared with Finland Shared with nine other countries

63°00′N 18°25′E / 63.000°N 18.417°E / 63.000; 18.417

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