The High Coast

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Kvarken Archipelago / High Coast*
UNESCO World Heritage Site
A gulf named Röviken in Ullånger, Kramfors Municipality.
State Party Flag of Finland Finland and Flag of Sweden Sweden
Type Natural
Criteria viii
Reference 898
Region† Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription 2000  (24th Session)
Extensions 2006
* Name as inscribed on World Heritage List.
† Region as classified by UNESCO.

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 isostasy, in which the land rises as the weight of the glaciers melts off of it. This phenomenon was first recognised and studied there; since the last ice age the land has risen 800 m, which accounts 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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Coordinates: 63°00′N, 18°25′E