Congratulations, Nova Scotia's Joggins Fossil Cliffs receives coveted UNESCO designation as a World Heritage Site.
At the World Heritage Committee meeting, its 32nd session held in Quebec City, Canada, on 7 July 2008, thirteen new sites were officially inscribed to UNESCO's World Heritage List.
The Joggins Fossil Cliffs (Nova Scotia, Canada) -- "a 689 ha palaeontological site along the coast of Nova Scotia (eastern Canada), have been described as the 'coal age Galápagos' due to their wealth of fossils from the Carboniferous period (354 to 290 million years ago). The rocks of this site are considered to be iconic for this period of the history of Earth and are the world's thickest and most comprehensive record of the Pennsylvanian strata (dating back 318 to 303 million years) with the most complete known fossil record of terrestrial life from that time. For more on this and other newly inscribed sites to UNESCO's World Heritage List at UNESCO.org website.
Canada's World Heritage Sites listed by the year each location received its designation:
1978 L'Anse aux Meadows
1978 Nahanni National Park
1979 Dinosaur Provincial Park
1979, 1992, 1994 Kluane, Wrangell-St. Elias, Glacier Bay, Tatshenshini-Alsek
1981 Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
1981 SGang Gwaay
1983 Wood Buffalo National Park
1984, 1990 Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
1985 Historic District of Old Quebec
1987 Gros Morne National Park
1995 Old Town Lunenburg
1995 Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
1999 Miguasha National Park
2007 Rideau Canal
2008 Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Nova Scotia
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