An Aussie Abroad: General

Extension of the "Australian East Coast Temperate and Subtropical Rainforest Park".
Renomination of "Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park" under cultural criteria.
The “Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia” which were previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of the transnational property “The Belfries of Belgium and France”.
Extension of "Jaú National Park".
Extension of the "Glacier Bay/Wrangell/St Elias/Kluane" property.
The "Burgess Shale" property, which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks".
Extension of "The Potala Palace and the Jokhang Temple Monastery, Lhasa" to include the Norbulingka area.
The “Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia” which were previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of the transnational property “The Belfries of Belgium and France”.
The "Chateau and Estate of Chambord", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes".
The “Hadrian’s Wall” which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the transnational property “Frontiers of the Roman Empire”.
At the time the property was extended, cultural criterion (iv) was also found applicable.
The "Brihadisvara Temple, Tanjavur", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Great Living Chola Temples".
The “Darjeeling Himalayan Railway” which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the “Mountain Railways of India”.
At the time the property was extended, cultural criterion (iv) was also found applicable.
At the time the property was extended, criteria (iii) and (v) were also found applicable.
The Committee decided to extend the existing cultural property, the "Temple of Ggantija", to include the five prehistoric temples situated on the islands of Malta and Gozo and to rename the property as "The Megalithic Temples of Malta".
The Westland and Mount Cook National Park and the Fiordland National Park, which were previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of the "Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand".
The "Convent Ensemble of San Francisco de Lima", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Historic Centre of Lima".
Extension of "Biertan and its Fortified Church".
At the time the property was extended, natural criterion (iv) was also found applicable.
Extension of the "Alhambra and the Generalife, Granada", to include the Albayzin quarter.
Extension of the "Mosque of Cordoba".
The property “Parque Güell, Palacio Güell and Casa Mila in Barcelona”, previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the “Works of Antoni Gaudí”.
Extension of the "Churches of the Kingdom of the Asturias", to include monuments in the city of Oviedo.
Extension of the "Mudejar Architecture of Teruel".
In 1979, the Committee decided to inscribe the Ohrid Lake on the World Heritage List under natural criteria (iii). In 1980, this property was extended to include the cultural and historical area, and cultural criteria (i)(iii)(iv) were added.
The “Hadrian’s Wall” which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the transnational property “Frontiers of the Roman Empire”.
Extension of "Gough Island Wildlife Reserve".
Extension of the "Glacier Bay/Wrangell/St Elias/Kluane" property.

*: transboundary property

"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel." - Kahlil Gibram, The Prophet

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I've always seen the UNESCO World Heritage tag as a good indicator of something worth seeing, like a sort of validation that it's worth the price of admission. So here's the complete list from the UNESCO website sorted by country. The link is http://whc.unesco.org/en/list.

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