Wednesday, May 26, 2010

May Overflow VI

I'm posting these cards together because all of them are new unesco cards in my collection. Thank you Andy "duplevista" from UK and Melissa "onecraftymumma" from Australia for sending me these great cards.


"The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement sites. The group constitutes a major prehistoric cultural landscape which gives a graphic depiction of life in this remote archipelago in the far north of Scotland some 5,000 years ago." - in: www.whc.unesco.org/en/list/514


"In a region that has been subjected to severe glaciation, these parks and reserves, with their steep gorges, covering an area of over 1 million ha, constitute one of the last expanses of temperate rainforest in the world. Remains found in limestone caves attest to the human occupation of the area for more than 20,000 years." - in: www.whc.unesco.org/en/list/181

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