World Heritage Area Gallery

Iguazu Falls

Iguazu Falls, 60 to 80 m high and 2.7 km wide in numerous cataracts and waterfalls, between 150 and 300 of them, depending on the water level. Iguazu National Park, Parana State, Brazil, and Misiones Province, Argentina

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Aboriginal rock art: running men wearing head decorations and elbow ornaments

Aboriginal rock art: running men wearing head decorations and elbow ornaments, carrying double-pronged spears, woomeras (spear throwers), stone axes, string dilly bags and goose-feather fans.part of a frieze of seven running warriors on the wall of a rock shelter, and is believed to have been painted around 6000 years ago. This work exemplifies the late-Mimi art period (dynamic, fluid, line drawings)Ubirr (Obiri Rock), Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

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Coral garden

Coral garden. Most of the 3000 reef systems forming the Great Barrier Reef consist of hard corals like these. Eagle Cay beyond is one of 900 islands throughout the Great Barrier Reef's 2600 km. There are about 120 continental or high islands, and the rest are like Eagle Cay, sand islands founded on coral rubble. Eagle Cay, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia

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