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Unesco World Heritage

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Welcome to the Kvarken Archipelago

A Valuable Natural Heritage Site

The unique Kvarken Archipelago is Finland's only Natural World Heritage Site on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Together with Sweden's High Coast, the Kvarken Archipelago is the best place in the world to experience and understand the land uplift phenomenon caused by the last Ice Age.

Boat houses by the water

Experience the Kvarken Archipelago

In the Kvarken archipelago, you can experience the fresh nature, the idyllic villages and the breathtaking land uplift scenery.

Find your experience
World Heritage Gateway Visitor Center

Visitor Centre World Heritage Gateway

Located next to the longest bridge in Finland, the Visitor Centre World Heritage Gateway is the starting point of your visit! At the gateway you can explore the World Heritage and get tips for your trip in the Kvarken Archipelago. We also have info points in the municipalities surrounding the World Heritage area.

Visit World Heritage Gateway
In the Kvarken, the scenery is rough but beautiful.

World Heritage Site in a nutshell

High meets low: the Kvarken Archipelago and Sweden's High Coast are a joint World Heritage Site on UNESCO's list. Traces of the Ice Age and continuous land uplift feature the both sides.

Learn more about the World Heritage Site
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The Kvarken Archipelago Audio Guide

In this audio guide, you can dive into the Kvarken Archipelago's cultural-historical story. In 75 episodes, we tell stories and show pictures and films from 75 different places around the Kvarken Archipelago World Heritage Area. Listen and enjoy!

Listen to stories of the Kvarken Archipelago
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Kvarken’s Sea Monster – Escape Game

The mysterious sea monster has been seen in the Kvarken Archipelago in the 1800s. Now it seems to be back in our rocky kingdom. Step in to the exhibition Weichsel in the visitor centre World Heritage Gateway, and see if you can catch the monster in time!

Read more and book your game here
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Projects in the Kvarken Archipelago World Heritage area

Read more about the ongoing projects in the Kvarken Archipelago World Heritage area.

Read more about the projects

The new electric ferry across Korsbådafjärden along the renewed hiking trail between Björkö and Panike is now in use

The inauguration of the renewed Björkö-Panike hiking trail was celebrated on Saturday 29 June.
The new electric ferry gives you a new way to experience the Kvarken Archipelago World Heritage Site

Read more about the Björkö-Panike hiking trail
Visit Vaasa summer bus is will drive to the Kvarken Archipelago World Heritage Site between July 2 to 27 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sundays. The bus heads to the World Heritage Gateway visitor Centre in Replot and Svedjehamn in Björköby. 🌊🏞️ Check the schedule and buy tickets: https://www.vaasa.fi/.../see-and.../visit-vaasas-summer-bus/
25.06.2024 - 10:00

Kvarken Archipelago - World Heritage Site
20.05.2024 - 10:09

Kvarken Archipelago - World Heritage Site
The World Heritage Gateway Visitor Centre has received STF (Sustainable Travel Finland) status In May 2024, the World Heritage Gateway Visitor Centre, which is maintained by the Kvarken World Heritage Association, was granted the right to start using the Sustainable Travel Finland (STF) label of Visit Finland. Sustainable Travel Finland is a national sustainable tourism programme managed by Visit Finland. The criteria include strategies for working with ecological, socio-cultural and economic sustainability. The Kvarken World Heritage Association participates in the Sustainable Travel Finland network by being a socially, culturally and economically sustainable destination. The World Heritage Gate visitor centre by the Replot Bridge in Korsholm has been established primarily to provide information about Finland's only natural heritage area, the Kvarken Archipelago, on the UNESCO World Heritage List. We tell about our exciting history, our unique land uplift landscape and encourage and inform about visits to the neighbouring region. The World Heritage Gateway is an easily accessible visitor centre, adapted to receive all kinds of visitors. https://www.vaasa.fi/en/see-and-experience/the-kvarken-archipelago-world-heritage-site/kvarken_stf_en/ #stf #visitfinland #stffinland #visitvaasa #UNESCO #kvarkenworldheritage
20.05.2024 - 10:03

Kvarken Archipelago - World Heritage Site
A new visitor survey at the seven Finnish UNESCO World Heritage Sites has been carried out, and now the results are available. The whole survey can be downloaded for further reading. Take a closer look here : https://www.maailmanperinto.fi/en/the-interpretation-and-visitor-survey-project-2021-2024
08.05.2024 - 09:25

Kvarken Archipelago - World Heritage Site
Do you have time to spare for some local stories during the Christmas holiday season? Are you familiar with our audio guide with stories and pictures from 75 different places around the Kvarken Archipelago World Heritage Site? Sit back and prepare for over 10 hours of historical stories (if you listen to all the episodes in one stretch)! But of course you can choose to only listen to the episodes you want. Select the desired area on the map or in the menu. Happy continuation of the Christmas holiday! https://audioguide.kvarken.fi (choose English)
27.12.2023 - 08:00

Kvarken Archipelago - World Heritage Site
Hope you followed along with our Christmas calendar with greetings from our Nordic world heritage sites. During the Christmas holiday season, we hope that you would share greetings and pictures from various world heritage sites, which you yourself have visited and have pleasant memories from. Thanks in advance!
25.12.2023 - 07:00

Kvarken Archipelago - World Heritage Site
Merry Christmas from the board and staff of the World Heritage Association in the Kvarken Archipelago! Hope our Christmas calendar with greetings from our Nordic World Heritage Sites has been a nice feature in this busy Christmas season. Now is the time to celebrate and rest. Little by little we start a new year!
24.12.2023 - 07:00

Kvarken Archipelago - World Heritage Site
December 23rd – Röros Mining Town and the Circumferences For 333 years, mining operations were conducted in Röros. The first discovery of copper ore was made in 1644 and mining was underway between the years 1646-1978. Mining made the state and the owners wealthy while the population got their living from the mines. In 1980 the World Heritage site included only the town centre with it's traditional style of wooden architecture. In 2010 the World Heritage Site was extended to include cultural monuments and landscapes beyond the town centre, and was renamed World Heritage Site Røros Mining Town and the Circumference. The site is made up of three locations: The mining town of Røros together its surrounding historical and cultural landscape, Vinterleden – the winter transport route and Femundshytta smelter. Today, Röros is a charming wooden town with memories of a bygone heyday. The shapely melting cabin functions today as a museum and world heritage centre. In winter, a very popular Christmas market is organized. By the way, did you know that the episode about Pippi Longstocking's Christmas was filmed in Röros?
23.12.2023 - 07:00

Kvarken Archipelago - World Heritage Site
Dec 22nd - Ilulissat Ice Fjord Ilulissat Icefjord, located on the west coast of Greenland 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, forms the estuary of Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the few glaciers through which the Greenland ice sheet reaches the sea. Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the fastest and most active glaciers in the world. It calves over 35 km3 of ice annually, i.e. 10% of the production of all Greenland calvary ice and more than any other glacier outside Antarctica. In 2004, the Ilulissat Ice Fjord was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
22.12.2023 - 07:00

Kvarken Archipelago - World Heritage Site
December 21th - Grimeton radio station The Grimeton radio station on the west coast of Sweden is unique in that it has the world's only working long-wave electromechanical transmitter. Founded to transmit wireless messages across the Atlantic, it was inaugurated in 1925 and has been a World Heritage Site since 2004. Grimeton is both a well-preserved monument and a station that still works. The World Heritage Site tells the story of an important link in the development of communications technology.
21.12.2023 - 07:58

Kvarken Archipelago - World Heritage Site