Nordics Archives | World Heritage Sites

View from a hill above the cliff over a bay with some of the cliff visible in the distance.

Stevns Klint

A long limestone cliff containing an exceptional fossil record of life on Earth both before and after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

a small house-like building but with a round stubby tower in its middle.

Struve Geodetic Arc

A chain of survey points from Norway to Ukraine set up in the 19th century to study the curvature of the Earth.

A large elegant palace of five stories or so.

Royal Domain of Drottningholm

A magnificent and remarkably well-preserved 18th-century palace and grounds.

An arch of ice on very smooth reflective water.

Ilulissat Icefjord

A fjord in Greenland where a very active glacier called Sermeq Kujalleq calves enormous icebergs into the sea: a breathtaking sight.

The entrance to Geirangerfjord. Steep hills on either side, and big mountains in the background.

West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord

The world’s largest and deepest fjords, and breathtakingly beautiful.

Looking across a flat, brown plain to, i nthe distance, mountains with a glacier between them.

Vatnajökull National Park – Dynamic Nature of Fire and Ice

A constantly-changing area where the continental rift, volcanoes and glaciers dramatically interact.

Seen from a bridge over a body of water, the fortress walls are visible.

Fortress of Suomenlinna

An important example of military fortress architecture on a group of islands off Helsinki.

Grimeton Radio Station

For radio buffs, a surviving operational example of pre-electronic radio technology.

A row of houses, each painted a different color, mostly in shades of yellows, whites and reds. Each is 3 stories with a peaked roof. The line a wharf where boats are docked..

Bryggen

A beautifully-preserved area of wooden houses and warehouses, once part of the Hanseatic League international trading network.

looking along a "road" between two rows of small red houses with white trim. The road is grassy. At the end of the road is a tall white church tower.

Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå

A perfectly-preserved example of a phenomenon unique to rural Sweden: a town shaped by religious and social necessity.

On a gray rock, dark red line drawings: several look like they might be boats, with people in them, or perhaps they're showing oars sticking up. A few human figures at the top holding items: a long stick, perhaps, a gourd or shield. Several 4-legged animals too.

Rock Carvings in Tanum

A collection of ancient petroglyphs dating back to the Bronze Age.

A solitary small house in a hill covered in short grasses, against a sunset sky.

Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland

An island known for its biodiversity, prehistoric ruins, and ancient agrarian landscape.

A tomb stands on a pedestal in a niche, all of it painted white as well as the wall behind it. On top of the tomb is a pillar with what looks like an urn on the top and a relief of the person's face halfway up the side. Below the tomb, a figure leans on each side of the pedestal: both are women in white marble. The left hand one leans her elbow on the pedestal and her face on her hand. On the right the woman has her hands clasped on the pedestal and looks up at the tomb.

Roskilde Cathedral

A medieval cathedral in a unique mix of styles that inspired cathedrals throughout Northern Europe.

Kronborg Castle

A symbol of Denmark’s former power as it guarded the narrow entrance to the Baltic Sea. Shakespeare’s inspiration for Elsinore.

Two large rocks, each with runes carved into it, each in a separate glass-sided case.

Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church

The place where King Harald Bluetooth in 965 AD declared Denmark a unified country and announced its Christianization.

In the foreground, the edge of the Great Pit. Beyond that, a row of buildings painted light yellow. The one in the middle is larger than the others, 3 stories with a mansard roof (green copper) and a cupola in the center of the roof. On either side are smaller, simpler yellow buildings with 2 stories. Beyond these buildings is the cluster of the town with a church steeple and in the background are some low hills with what may be a ski jump on the nearest one.

Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun

Remains of a copper mining area that influenced the mining industry worldwide.

The painting is curved at the top, with lots of blue and green. It depicts a very fanciful version of Stockholm, with three grand-looking white churches with turrets and a jumble of smaller white buildings around it., along with scattered very tall trees

Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland

Fancifully decorated farmhouses built for special occasions by prosperous farmers.

A river crosses the bottom of the picture. On the banks are two buildings: a white two-story house with a series of five gables., and a small white church with a simple spire. Behind them is a flat plain, rocky in places, covered in green in others. A rift in the land is visible crossing the plain.

Þingvellir National Park

Historically important to the nation of Iceland, geologically dramatic as well.

Surtsey Island

An island with no people, where scientists can learn about how species colonize new land.