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Although it's a beautiful place, I'm surprised that it's the first UK national park to receive such an honour. In my opinion there's a whole bunch of places in Scotland more deserving of heritage status. Alongside Snowdonia in Wales, and even coastal areas of south-west England.
Dorset and Devon coasts are already UNESCO sites, Cornwalls tin mining region is too.
The areas for designation have to apply, have the areas you think worthy applied, or already hold UNESCO designation?
I didn't know that, I thought the only other natural environment was the Giant's Causeway.
It's even more scandalous, I guess that England just has better PR muscle than Scotland or Wales. I know that the Cairngorms have applied in the past, and in all respect, they easily blow all of the aforementioned Unesco locations out of the water.
The Cairngorms is the single most beautiful most wild part of the UK.
I agree the highlands are hard to beat for beauty, there are of course other beautiful parts of the UK too, the Lake District is of course famous for its beauty, personally my favourite parts of the UK are the coastal area's and islands though and Cornwall is probably my favourite part of the whole country.
It would be nice to have some pictures on here. What's the policy? Do we have to provide a link and avoid copyright?
I've posted tonnes of pictures in the past and it's never seemed to cause a fuss.
As long as the picture presented does not violate copyright or other ToS you can post it. So your own pics, or, public domain images (for instance Wikimedia commons with an attribution) only. If you're not sure a picture is public domain, probably best you don't post it.
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