Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Triple Indonesia UNESCO postcards

Today I received three great postcards with beautiful stamps from Shinta of Indonesia as part of private swap:
UNESCO World Heritage Site - Lorentz National Park
- Lorentz National Park (2.5 million ha) is the largest protected area in South-East Asia. It is the only protected area in the world to incorporate a continuous, intact transect from snowcap to tropical marine environment, including extensive lowland wetlands. Located at the meeting-point of two colliding continental plates, the area has a complex geology with ongoing mountain formation as well as major sculpting by glaciation. The area also contains fossil sites which provide evidence of the evolution of life on New Guinea, a high level of endemism and the highest level of biodiversity in the region.
(http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/955)

UNESCO World Heritage Site - Ujung Kulon National Park
- This national park, located in the extreme south-western tip of Java on the Sunda shelf, includes the Ujung Kulon peninsula and several offshore islands and encompasses the natural reserve of Krakatoa. In addition to its natural beauty and geological interest – particularly for the study of inland volcanoes – it contains the largest remaining area of lowland rainforests in the Java plain. Several species of endangered plants and animals can be found there, the Javan rhinoceros being the most seriously under threat.
(http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/608)

UNESCO World Heritage Site - Sangiran Early Man Site
- Excavations here from 1936 to 1941 led to the discovery of the first hominid fossil at this site. Later, 50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/Homo erectus were found – half of all the world's known hominid fossils. Inhabited for the past one and a half million years, Sangiran is one of the key sites for the understanding of human evolution.
(http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/593)

Thanks a lot to Shinta.

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