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Island of Saint-Louis
Island of Saint-Louis (Île de Saint-Louis), Senegal: island city at the Senegal River mouth, French colonial settlement founded 1659, capital of Senegal 1872-1957 and of French West Africa until 1902, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000 (criteria ii, iv), threatened by sea-level rise.
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California (Islas y Áreas Protegidas del Golfo de California) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of 244 islands in north-western Mexico, inscribed in 2005.
Islas Marias Biosphere Reserve
Islas Marias Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Islas Marías), Mexican Pacific archipelago of four islands off Nayarit, protected since 2000; former prison site (1905-2019) with high endemism, now a no-fishing, low-impact tourism reserve.
Islas Marietas National Park
Islas Marietas National Park (Parque Nacional Islas Marietas) is a 2005-designated marine national park in Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit, Mexico, with two islands, coral reefs, seabird colonies, the hidden Playa del Amor, and a 2016 tourism ban later lifted with visitor caps.
Isle Royale National Park
Isle Royale National Park is a remote Michigan archipelago in Lake Superior, home of the world's longest-running wolf-moose predator-prey study (since 1958), 132,018 wilderness acres, ancient copper mining sites, and a relocated, recovering wolf population.
Isola del Tinetto
Isola del Tinetto, a tiny Ligurian islet (about 6,000 m², 18 m high) at the western end of the Gulf of La Spezia near Tino; part of the 1997 UNESCO site Portovenere, Cinque Terre and Islands, with a 5th-6th century oratory, an 11th-century triapsidal church, and an endemic lizard.
Isola Sacra
Isola Sacra (Sacred Island) is an artificial Tiber-delta island between Ostia and Portus, near Fiumicino, Rome, named by Procopius in the 6th century. It holds a Roman necropolis of 200+ tombs along the via Flavia, in use 1st-4th century AD.
Issando
Issando, the ancient name of Yssandon (Corrèze, France), a Gallic oppidum and castrum attested as Castrum Issando in the 572 testament of Saint-Yrieix; Barrington Atlas 14 G3, later taken by Pepin the Short and raided in 1183.
Issendorf
Issendorf (Gräberfeld von Issendorf) is a large Saxon urn cemetery in Harsefeld, Landkreis Stade, Lower Saxony, used late 4th to early 6th century CE, with over 3,795 cremations, inhumations with coffins, and close parallels to Spong Hill in the Anglo-Saxon migration.
Issyk kurgan field
The Issyk kurgan field, also called the Esik Necropolis, is a Saka-period burial ground of earthen kurgans near Esik, east of Almaty, Kazakhstan, known for the Golden Man.
Issyk-Kul Biosphere Reserve
Issyk-Kul Biosphere Reserve (Ысык-Кёль), a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in Kyrgyzstan designated in 2001, covering 4,314,400 ha around Issyk-Kul Lake with core, buffer, transition, and sanitation zones and a Ramsar wetland site.
Istanbul Aquarium
Istanbul Aquarium (İstanbul Akvaryum), Turkey's national and largest aquarium, opened 25 June 2011 in Florya, Istanbul; 17,000 animals of ~1,500 species along a 1.2 km Black Sea-to-Pacific thematic route, 15 million visitors by 2026.
Isthmia
Isthmia (Greek site of the Sanctuary of Poseidon) on the Isthmus of Corinth, about 13 km east of ancient Corinth; one of four Panhellenic sanctuaries and home of the biennial Isthmian Games, reorganized 582 BC, crowned with pine, administered by Corinth, and dismantled for Justinian's Hexamilion wall in the 6th century AD.
It's a Small World
It's a small world: Disney boat dark ride created for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair (Pepsi/UNICEF), designed by Mary Blair with a Sherman Brothers song played over 50 million times; at five Disney parks since 1966.
Itabashi Botanical Garden
Itabashi Botanical Garden, formally the Itabashi Tropical Environment Botanical Garden (板橋区立熱帯環境植物館, Nettaikan), is a Tokyo municipal greenhouse in Takashimadaira recreating four Southeast Asian vegetation zones with an underground aquarium, opened in 1994 and heated by waste heat from an incineration plant.
Itaipu Biosphere Reserve
Itaipu Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site in eastern Paraguay designated in 2017, covering about a million hectares of Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest around the Itaipu Dam; the first hydroelectric scheme in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
Italic temple of Castel di Ieri
Italic temple of Castel di Ieri (Tempio italico): late Republican sanctuary at Piè di Franci, Abruzzo, found 1987; Temple A (2nd c. BC) over Temple B (4th c. BC), mosaic inscription, debated Minerva, Jupiter, or Cybele dedication.
Itchan Kala
Itchan Kala (Ichan-Qal'a), the walled inner town of Khiva, Uzbekistan; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1990 with 10 m brick walls, 51 monuments, and the 212-column Djuma Mosque.
Itoigawa UNESCO Global Geopark
Itoigawa UNESCO Global Geopark (糸魚川ユネスコ世界ジオパーク) covers all of Itoigawa City, Niigata, Japan. Japan's first Global Geopark (22 August 2009), a UNESCO Global Geopark since 2015, with 24 geosites, the Fossa Magna Museum, and GeoPal visitor center.
IUCN protected area categories
IUCN protected area management categories: a six-level system (Ia–VI) classifying protected areas by primary management objective, from strict nature reserves to sustainable-use areas, with four governance types, a 75 percent rule, and use in WDPA and CBD reporting.
Iuktas
Iuktas (Juktas, Giouchtas) is a mountain 13 km southwest of Knossos, Crete, whose Psili Korfi peak hosted the principal Minoan peak sanctuary, with a 735 m Cyclopean wall, Linear A offering tables, and cult use from c. 2500 to 700 BC.
Iuliacum/Rofiacum
Iuliacum/Rofiacum: Iuliacum (Iuliaco, Juliacum), Roman road station at the Rur crossing on the Cologne–Tongeren road, modern Jülich, Germany; Rofiacum, unrelated Latin name of Rouffiac in the Dordogne, France, recorded from the testament of Saint Yrieix (572–573).
Iuncaria
Iuncaria (Juncaria), Roman road mansio on the Via Augusta in Hispania Tarraconensis, at L'Aigüeta near Figueres, Spain; first station south of the Pyrenees, 16 miles from Ad Pyrenaeum, 27 from Gerunda.
Iunonis Curritis Lucus
Iunonis Curritis Lucus: the sacred grove of Juno Curritis at Falerii Novi, reached by a via sacra from the chalcidicum, recorded in the Arval calendar for October 7 and restored for 100,000 sesterces.
Iuppiter Latiaris, T.
Iuppiter Latiaris, the Latin Jupiter worshipped on Monte Cavo (Mons Albanus) in the Alban Hills, whose sanctuary, reached by the Via Sacra and linked to Diana's Nemi shrine, was Latium's main pre-Roman cult site.
Iversheim
Iversheim, a district of Bad Münstereifel, Germany, hosts the Roman lime kilns (Römische Kalkbrennerei) run by Legio XXX Ulpia Victrix, discovered in 1966, producing about 200 tonnes of lime monthly, and part of the UNESCO Lower Germanic Limes World Heritage site since 2021.
Ivindo National Park
Ivindo National Park (Parc national de l'Ivindo) is a 298,758 ha World Heritage park in northeastern Gabon, created in 2002, with old-growth Caesalpinioideae forest, Kongou Falls, and a unique Paramormyrops fish swarm.
Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century
Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2018, ref. 1538) in Piedmont, Italy, also called Città industriale di Ivrea. 27 Olivetti-era buildings from 1930 to 1960, inscribed under criterion (iv), not a company town.
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape (石見銀山) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Shimane, Japan, a silver mine worked from the 16th century to 1943.
Ixcateopan
Ixcateopan, an archaeological zone in Ixcateopan de Cuauhtémoc, Guerrero, Mexico; Nahuatl for "temple of cotton"; a Late Postclassic (1200-1521) Mexica tribute center, and site of the discredited 1949 find of bones said to be Emperor Cuauhtémoc's.