Denmark and Greenland UNESCO sites (+map)

The UNESCO sites of Denmark and Greenland cover geology and history (prehistory to the Middle Ages), but also emphasize the importance of traditional ways of life within its landscapes. Several have to do with important fossil sites. Click on the maps to go to the individual articles, or use the lists below the maps. Tentative sites are listed as well.

Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church
The place where King Harald Bluetooth in 965 AD declared Denmark a unified country and announced its Christianization.

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

The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand
A royal hunting park planned according to geometric principles in order to emphasize the absolute power of the monarchy.

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

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.

Viking-Age Ring Fortresses

Møns Klint

The Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfjord – Evolution and Climate Adaptation in the Earliest Eocene

Greenland

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

Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap

Aasivissuit – Nipisat. Inuit Hunting Ground between Ice and Sea

Transnational site

Wadden Sea (with Germany and the Netherlands)

Moravian Church Settlements (with Germany, UK and USA)

Sites on UNESCO’s Tentative List

All of these nominations are in the cultural category.

  • Workers’ Assembly Halls (trans-national with Argentina, Australia and Belgium)
  • Seaweed Houses and Sea-salt Huts, Laesoe Island 
  • The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbour – A ‘skipper-town’ from the era of the great tall ships in the 18th and 19th centuries 
  • Amalienborg and its district