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Kerang Wetlands
Kerang Wetlands, a Ramsar site (no. 265) of 23 lakes, marshes and swamps near Kerang, Victoria, listed 15 December 1982, 9,784 ha, supporting over 20,000 waterbirds and threatened species.
Kercado tumulus
Kercado tumulus (Tumulus-dolmen de Kercado, Cairn de Kercado): Neolithic passage grave under a dry-stone cairn at Carnac, Morbihan, Brittany, built around 4600 BC, excavated by Galles (1863) and Le Rouzic (1925), classified monument historique in 1923.
Keressos
Keressos (Κερησσός, Ceressus) was a Boeotian fortress in the territory of Thespiae, refuge of the Thespians against the Thessalians and after Leuctra (371 BC), captured by Epaminondas; site unlocated, possibly Pyrgaki hill near Askri.
Kerlescan alignments
Kerlescan alignments (Alignements de Kerlescan), easternmost and best-preserved of the Carnac stone fields in Morbihan, Brittany: 13 rows, 594 original menhirs, east-west oriented, Neolithic, mid 4th millennium BC, classified 1889.
Kerma Necropolis
The Kerma Necropolis is the vast burial field of the Nubian kingdom of Kerma in Sudan, used from about 2550 to 1500 BC and holding up to 40,000 tombs.
Kermario alignments
Kermario alignments (Alignements de Kermario), central and longest stone-row group of the Carnac alignments in Morbihan, Brittany: over 1,100 m, about 1,000 menhirs in 10 rows, Neolithic mid-4th millennium BC, classified monument historique 1889.
Kernavė Archaeological Site (Cultural Reserve of Kernavė)
Kernavė Archaeological Site (Cultural Reserve of Kernavė) is a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Neris valley near Vilnius, preserving about 10,000 years of settlement, hill forts, and a medieval town.
Kerry Biosphere Reserve
Kerry Biosphere Reserve, formerly Killarney, is one of Ireland's two UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: 65,001 ha around Lough Leane and the MacGillycuddy Reeks, nominated 1982, population 25,891, managed by NPWS and Kerry County Council.
Kesopur Menoharpur Mound
Kesopur Menoharpur Mound, locally Hathi Tila, a centrally protected ancient habitation mound near Kishori Raman College, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh; Mauryan pottery found in 1973-77 excavations; site of a 2026 land dispute.
Keston Roman Mausoleum
Keston Roman Mausoleum (Warbank, Keston, Bromley): a 3rd-century AD group of three Romano-British tombs, the main one a circular, buttressed, red-painted tomb about 9 m across serving a nearby Roman villa; scheduled monument 1002024, rarely open to the public.
Keta Lagoon Complex Ramsar Site
Keta Lagoon Complex Ramsar Site (KLCRS), Ghana's largest coastal wetland, designated a Ramsar site in 1992 in the Volta Region; brackish lagoon with Ghana's most contiguous mangrove cover, rich waterbird and fish biodiversity, and major mangrove restoration projects.
Kettle Falls Hotel
Kettle Falls Hotel, the only lodging in Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota, built 1910-1913 by Ed Rose, reputedly financed by Nellie Bly, sold in 1918 for $1,000 and four barrels of whiskey, NPS-owned since 1978.
Keukenhof
Keukenhof, the spring flower exhibition in Lisse, Netherlands, on the 32-hectare Zocher park of Keukenhof Estate; opened 1950, plants 7 million bulbs, draws 1.4 million visitors in eight weeks each spring.
Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) is a UNESCO World Heritage botanic garden in southwest London, founded in 1759, holding over 50,000 living plants, a seven-million-specimen Herbarium, and the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst.
Kew Observatory
Kew Observatory, long known as the King's Observatory, is a Grade I listed building in Richmond, London, built in 1769 for George III to observe the transit of Venus.
Khakassky Biosphere Reserve
Khakassky Biosphere Reserve (Хакасский заповедник), a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, designated 2017; 2,871,400 ha, over 80% mountain taiga, formed from the Chazy and Maly Abakan reserves in 1999.
Khami Ruins National Monument
Khami Ruins National Monument, near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, was the Torwa dynasty capital and center of the Butua state, a 1986 UNESCO World Heritage Site with dry-stone terraced platforms and Chinese and European trade finds.
Khamissa Roman Theater
Roman theater at Thubursicum Numidarum, modern Khamissa (خميسة), Souk Ahras Province, Algeria. Built against a hillside in the middle imperial period; 70 m cavea; the best preserved Roman theater in Algeria, site classified 1968.
Khane Gauhar
Khane Gauhar, a Buddhist shrine site near Darwishan in Helmand province, Afghanistan, recorded by the Helmand Sistan Project; mudbrick stupa 11 m across with monastic caves, possibly the westernmost early Buddhist structure.
Khangchendzonga National Park
Khangchendzonga National Park (KNP) is a 1,784 sq km national park in Sikkim, India, inscribed in 2016 as India's first mixed UNESCO World Heritage site, spanning 1,220-8,586 m and sacred as a beyul and Mayel Lyang.
Khankaiskiy Biosphere Reserve
Khankaiskiy Biosphere Reserve (Ханкайский заповедник), a Russian protected wetland area around Lake Khanka in Primorsky Krai, established 1990, UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2005, twinned with China's Xingkai-Hu Reserve since 1996.
Khao Sok National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาสก)
Khao Sok National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาสก), Thailand's 22nd national park, established 22 December 1980 in Surat Thani Province, covers about 739 km² of rainforest and limestone karst, with Cheow Lan Lake created by the 1987 Ratchaprapha Dam.
Khao Yai National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาใหญ่)
Khao Yai National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาใหญ่) is Thailand's first national park, established in 1962, covering 2,166 km² across four provinces about 200 km from Bangkok and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.
Khar Us Lake Biosphere Reserve
Khar Us Lake Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2024 in Khovd Province, western Mongolia, spans 14,153 km² around the freshwater Khar Us Lake in the Great Lake basin, protecting steppe, desert, mountain and wetland ecosystems and endemic osman fish.
Khashm el-Eish
Khashm el-Eish (Khashm al ‘Aysh), "Beginning of Plenty", is a 60 m oolitic limestone hill in Matruh, Egypt, about 23 km east-southeast of el-Alamein, crowned by a Graeco-Roman fortress with a 33 m square keep, ancient cisterns, and a proposed role as a signal tower on the road to Cyrene.
Khayrabad Bala
Khayrabad Bala, an ancient place at Barrington Atlas map 93 G3 (Mesene) in the Pleiades gazetteer, created by Hausleiter, Roaf, Simpson, and Wenke; distinct from Khayrabad in Kabul, Khayrabadtepa in Uzbekistan, and Khairabad in India.
Khera Mound
Khera Mound, an ASI centrally protected archaeological mound at Bajera Khera, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh, recorded by Cunningham; brick foundations, a curved wall, and a kankar architrave. Khera names many such mounds.
Khirbet ed Deir
Khirbet ed-Deir (Khirbet ed-Deir in the Judean Desert) is an early Byzantine monastery in the Nahal Arugot gorge, 30 km south of Jerusalem, founded late 5th-early 6th century CE, excavated 1981-1987 by Yizhar Hirschfeld, identified with the cœnobium of Severianus, abandoned about 650 CE.
Khirbet el-Kithara
Khirbet el-Kithara (خربة كثارة, Qasr el-Kithara) is a small Roman fort, about 0.12 ha, on the via nova Traiana in Wadi Yutm, southern Jordan, 20 km north of Aqaba, with Nabataean to Byzantine occupation and a 112 CE Trajanic milestone.
Khirbet el-Qirana
Khirbet el-Qirana (Khirbat el-Qirana), southern Jordan archaeological site 18 km southeast of Es Sadaqa: a roughly 120 x 80 m rectangular fortified enclosure with corner and mid-wall towers, first to second century AD ceramics, possibly the Notitia Dignitatum site Sabure sive Veterocariae.