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West Altai Biosphere Reserve
West Altai Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated in 2020 in East Kazakhstan on the Russian border, 189,477 ha around the 1992 West Altai State Nature Reserve, protecting Kazakhstan's only black taiga, wolverines, musk deer, and over 160 bird species.
West Bridge
West Bridge, Elkesley: a scheduled monument (NHLE 1006400) over the River Poulter at the Elkesley/Clumber and Hardwick parish boundary, Nottinghamshire; a legacy OCN record with no published description. Distinct from the Grade II listed West Bridge in Bridport, Dorset.
West Coast Trail
The West Coast Trail (WCT) is a 75 km, 6-8 day backpacking route from Pachena Bay to Gordon River in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Vancouver Island. Formerly the Dominion Life Saving Trail, it has 100+ ladders, cable cars, tide-dependent sections, and a May 1-September 30 season.
West Estonian Archipelago Biosphere Reserve
West Estonian Archipelago Biosphere Reserve (WEABR), Estonia's only UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve, designated 1990; about 15,600 km2 around Saaremaa, Hiiumaa, Muhu, Vormsi, and Ruhnu with roughly 45,000 residents.
West Kennet Long Barrow
West Kennet Long Barrow (South Long Barrow) is a Cotswold-Severn Neolithic chambered tomb near Avebury, Wiltshire, built around 3650 BC, 104 m long, with five chambers holding remains of 30 to 46 people, sealed around 2000 BC.
West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou
West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou (杭州西湖文化景观), a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2011 under criteria ii, iii, vi, comprising West Lake, surrounding hills, causeways, islands, and ten poetic Southern Song views that shaped East Asian garden design.
West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord
West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord: Norwegian UNESCO natural World Heritage site, inscribed 2005, criteria vii–viii; 122,712 ha serial property, type locality for fjords, zero-emission ship rules from 2026.
West Polesie Biosphere Reserve
West Polesie Biosphere Reserve (Rezerwat Biosfery Polesie Zachodnie), a UNESCO MAB reserve in Lublin voivodeship, Poland, established 30 April 2002 over 139,917 ha around Polesie National Park; a Polish-Ukrainian-Belarusian transboundary reserve since 2012.
West Virginia state parks
West Virginia state parks: a DNR-run system of 36 parks, nine state forests, and rail trails begun in 1925 at Watoga, with 10 lodge parks, free day-use admission, and nearly 10 million annual visitors.
West Wing
The West Wing is the White House's western office building, begun as a temporary 1902 structure under Theodore Roosevelt, given the Oval Office by Taft in 1909, rebuilt after the 1929 fire and by FDR in 1934.
West Wycombe Park
West Wycombe Park is a Grade I registered 18th-century landscape park and Palladian villa in Buckinghamshire, created by Sir Francis Dashwood between 1735 and 1781, with temples by Nicholas Revett, a dammed River Wye lake, and National Trust ownership since 1943.
West-Vikna Archipelago
West-Vikna Archipelago (Vest-Vikna), Ramsar Site no. 2165 in Nærøysund, Trøndelag, Norway; 13,592 ha designated 27 May 2013; ten protected localities with seabird colonies, seals, and otters.
Westbury White Horse
Westbury (Bratton) White Horse: oldest of Wiltshire's chalk hill horses, on Bratton Down below Bratton Camp hillfort. Current figure cut 1778 by Mr Gee for Lord Abingdon, replacing an earlier south-facing horse; concreted in the 1950s, cleaned 2023.
Wester Ross Biosphere Reserve
Wester Ross Biosphere Reserve, formerly Beinn Eighe, is a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in northwest Scotland, designated 1976, extended over 100-fold and renamed in 2016, covering 529,904 ha with 8,136 residents.
Western Caucasus
Western Caucasus (Западный Кавказ), UNESCO natural World Heritage Site (1999, criteria ix, x) in Krasnodar Region and Adygea, Russia; 298,903 ha of near-pristine Caucasus mountain forest, European bison and Persian leopard reintroduction, under Committee scrutiny over Lagonaki resort.
Western District Lakes
Western District Lakes: nine saline and freshwater lakes on the Victorian Volcanic Plain near Colac, Australia, a 32,898-hectare Ramsar wetland listed 15 December 1982, famed for waterbirds and Lake Corangamite, Australia's largest permanent saline lake.
Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve
Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve (Khu Dự trữ sinh quyển miền Tây Nghệ An) is Vietnam's largest UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated in 2007 in Nghe An province.
Western Tien-Shan
Western Tien-Shan: transnational UNESCO natural World Heritage site (inscribed 2016, criterion x) of 13 components across Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan; 503,122.9 ha, 700-4,503 m, centre of origin of fruit crops, Snow Leopard and Menzbier's Marmot habitat.
Westerwanna
Westerwanna (Urnenfriedhof) is a large Saxon urn cemetery around the Gravenberg barrow near Wanna, Lower Saxony, in use 1st-5th century AD; its Buckelurnen also occur in England, and it named a four-sided die type.
Westerwood
Westerwood Roman fort, a small auxiliary fort on the Antonine Wall at Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire; about 0.8 ha, secondary to the Wall, excavated 1932, 1974-75, 1985-88; Silvanus altar find.
Westfalenpark
Westfalenpark is Dortmund's large admission-charging park, created for the 1959 Bundesgartenschau on 60 hectares with 6.8 million visitors, home of the Florianturm tower and events such as Lichterfest and Juicy Beats.
Westland National Park
Westland Tai Poutini National Park, proclaimed 29 March 1960 on New Zealand's West Coast, spans the Southern Alps to the Tasman coast within Te Wāhipounamu World Heritage Area, known for Franz Josef and Fox glaciers, rowi kiwi, and 18 approved aircraft landing sites.
Westminster Hall
Westminster Hall, built 1097–1099 under William II, is the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster. Its Richard II hammer-beam roof (1393) is Northern Europe's largest medieval timber roof; the Hall hosted law courts, state trials, and lyings-in-state.
Wet Tropics of Queensland
Wet Tropics of Queensland: UNESCO World Heritage Area (inscribed 1988, criteria vii–x) of tropical rainforest along 450 km of northeast Queensland between Townsville and Cooktown, covering about 894,420 ha with exceptional Gondwanan relict flora and fauna.
Wet World (south eastern asia, w23780845)
Wet World is a Malaysian waterpark chain, self-described as the country's largest, with parks at Shah Alam, Selangor (opened 1996 on Taman Tasik Shah Alam's West Lake) and Pedas, Negeri Sembilan; family-oriented, value-priced rides like Monsoon Buster and Super Hurricane.
Wet World (south eastern asia, w23780846)
Wet World Shah Alam, a family water theme park opened in 1996 on a 2.4-hectare site by Shah Alam Lake Gardens, Selangor, Malaysia. Flagship of Malaysia's largest waterpark chain under Only World Group; debuted the first Master Blaster water coaster outside North America in 1997; admission from RM35.
Wetlands of Central Kolkheti
Wetlands of Central Kolkheti (ცენტრალური კოლხეთის ჭარბტენიანი ტერიტორიები), Ramsar site no. 893 in western Georgia, designated 1997, 33,710 ha plus marine water, largest Georgian Ramsar site, overlapping Kolkheti National Park.
Wetlands Reserve in Al Wusta Governorate
Wetlands Reserve in Al Wusta Governorate (محمية الأراضي الرطبة بمحافظة الوسطى), a coastal nature reserve at Barr Al Hikman, Mahout, Oman, established by Royal Decree 51/2014 and designated Ramsar site 2529 in 2023, hosting about 465,000 waterbirds annually.
Weycock Hill (temple)
The Weycock Hill temple is a rare polygonal Romano-Celtic temple in Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire, built as two concentric octagonal walls and excavated in 1847.
Whangamarino
Whangamarino Wetland, a roughly 7,000-hectare Ramsar wetland of swamps, fens and peat bogs in north Waikato, New Zealand, designated in 1989; stronghold of the Australasian bittern and the only site for Corybas carsei, now in documented ecological decline.