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Whanganui National Park
Whanganui National Park, New Zealand North Island national park gazetted 1986, 74,191 ha of lowland forest bisected by the 290 km Whanganui River; Whanganui Journey Great Walk, Bridge to Nowhere, largest North Island brown kiwi population.
Whatley Combe Roman villa (United Kingdom)
Whatley Combe Roman villa: a minor Romano-British villa near Nunney, Somerset, scheduled in 1954 (NHLE 1006188). Built around 300 AD, partially destroyed 350 AD, occupied to at least 370 AD, with courtyard plan, triclinium mosaic, and bath suite.
White Castle hillfort
White Castle hillfort: Iron Age multivallate contour fort near Garvald, East Lothian, Scotland, at 318 m in the Lammermuirs; three ramparts, 18 platforms, radiocarbon-dated c 750-100 BC. Not the medieval Welsh White Castle of the Three Castles in Monmouthshire.
White City (העיר הלבנה) (Tel Aviv)
White City of Tel-Aviv – the Modern Movement (העיר הלבנה), UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2003: three zones of 140.4 ha in central Tel Aviv with about 4,000 International Style buildings built 1930s–1948 on Patrick Geddes's 1925 plan; Bauhaus label is partly myth.
White Clay Creek State Park
White Clay Creek State Park is a 3,689-acre Delaware state park near Newark with over 37 miles of trails, a Wild and Scenic Creek, DuPont-era origins, and a $13.4 million Discovery Center opening 2028.
White House
The White House, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., is the US president's official residence and workplace, built from James Hoban's 1792 design, burned in 1814, rebuilt, and gutted under Truman in 1948–1952; it has 132 rooms and six levels.
White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal (Белокаменные памятники Владимира и Суздаля): UNESCO serial World Heritage site, dossier 633, inscribed 1992 under criteria (i)(ii)(iv); eight white-limestone 12th–13th-century monuments in Vladimir, Suzdal, Bogolyubovo, and Kideksha totaling 14.75 ha.
White Peacock
White peacock: an all-white leucistic variant of the Indian Blue Peafowl (Pavo cristatus), not a separate species; blue-eyed, about 1-in-1000 mutation, captive-bred worldwide; also names a Florida butterfly and a Beijing art market.
White River National Wildlife Refuge
White River National Wildlife Refuge is a federally protected bottomland hardwood forest and waterfowl sanctuary in the White River floodplain in east-central Arkansas, established in 1935.
White Sands National Park
White Sands National Park, formerly White Sands National Monument, protects the world's largest gypsum dunefield in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin and became the 62nd US national park in 2019.
White-Naped Crane
White-naped crane (Grus vipio, マナヅル), a 125 cm Vulnerable grey crane of Northeast Asia with a white nape stripe and red face; eastern subpopulation wintering in Korea and Japan is increasing while the western Poyang Lake population declines.
Whitemoss Roman auxiliary fort
Whitemoss Roman auxiliary fort, also called Bishopton Roman Fort, is an Antonine-period Roman fort (c. 140-160 AD) on Whitemoss Farm, Renfrewshire, Scotland; discovered from cropmarks in 1949, it anchored the western defences of the Antonine Wall and is scheduled monument SM1652.
Whiteshell Provincial Park
Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba's first provincial park (established 1961 or 1962 by source), is a 2,729 km2 Natural Park on the Precambrian Shield with petroforms, the Mantario Trail, and about 200 lakes.
Whitton
Whitton: name of several British settlements. The chief subject is Whitton, Vale of Glamorgan, an Iron Age enclosed farmstead (about 50 BC onward) that became a Roman villa, excavated by M.G. Jarrett 1965-1970; also Whitton, Ipswich (Castle Hill villa) and Whitton, Richmond.
Whitton Lodge Roman Villa
Whitton Lodge Roman Villa is a Roman villa site in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, occupied in ten phases from the later 1st century CE to about 340.
Whooping Crane Summer Range
Whooping Crane Summer Range, Ramsar site 240 in northeast Alberta and the Northwest Territories, Canada, designated 24 May 1982; a 1,689,500-ha boreal wetland complex within Wood Buffalo National Park holding the only natural nesting area of the endangered Whooping Crane.
Wick
Wick: English place-name from Old English wic, denoting farm, trading settlement, or Romano-British site; found in Wick, Wickham, Wickford, Wicken, and Heddington Wick across England.
Wickaninnish Beach
Wickaninnish Beach, at the south end of Long Beach in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve near Tofino and Ucluelet, BC; home of the Kʷisitis Visitor Centre, surfed year-round, with restored sand dunes threatened by invasive beachgrass.
Widdertshäuschen at Serrig
The Widdertshäuschen near Serrig, Germany, is a Gallo-Roman grave monument of the 2nd or 3rd century: a sandstone block hollowed out for burials and covered by a house-shaped stone lid.
Wiebendorf
Wiebendorf: early Roman Imperial Langobardic urn cemetery at Wiebendorf, Bengerstorf, Ludwigslust-Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; excavated 1973-74 by Horst Keiling; about 800 graves, 718 excavated; published 1984 and 2023.
Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines (Królewskie kopalnie soli w Wieliczce i Bochni): serial UNESCO World Heritage site in southern Poland, the oldest rock salt mines of their type in Europe, worked from the 13th century to 1990 and 1996 and administered as the royal Kraków Saltworks.
Wieliczka Salt Mine
The Wieliczka Salt Mine (Kopalnia Soli Wieliczka) is a historic rock salt mine near Kraków, Poland, worked from the 13th century until 1996, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978 with underground chapels, salt sculptures, and a large underground museum.
Wild Adventures
Wild Adventures is a 170-acre theme park, water park, and animal park in Valdosta, Georgia, opened in 1996 and owned by Herschend Family Entertainment since its 2007 purchase for $34.5 million. It runs six roller coasters, Splash Island Waterpark, hundreds of animals, and seasonal concerts.
Wild Araceae Garden
野生天南星园 (Wild Araceae Garden, 天南星园), an Araceae living collection at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan; founded 1995, about 12 mu, holding 30 genera and 147 species, China's largest Araceae collection.
Wild boar
Wild boar (Sus scrofa) is an omnivorous, herd-living wild pig found across Eurasia and North Africa, acclimatized in the Americas, and the wild ancestor of the domestic pig.
Wild Elephant Valley
Wild Elephant Valley (野象谷, Yexianggu) is a scenic area in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China, within a national nature reserve, home to 100-150 wild Asian elephants, viewed via cable car and skywalk; distinct from namesake sanctuaries in Thailand, Cambodia, and San Diego.
Wild Orchid Garden
野生兰花园 (wild orchid garden): a conservation-focused orchid collection, especially the 9.08-mu Wild Orchid Garden founded in 2000 at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, holding nearly 200 wild orchid species for ex situ conservation and research.
Wild River State Park
Wild River State Park is a 6,768-acre Minnesota state park in Chisago County along 18 miles of the St. Croix River near Center City, authorized 1973, opened 1978, with 94-site campground, 30-plus miles of trails, and Nevers Dam Overlook.
Wilderness
Wilderness: legally designated undeveloped U.S. federal land under the 1964 Wilderness Act; over 111 million acres in 800+ areas of the National Wilderness Preservation System, managed by NPS, BLM, FWS, and Forest Service.
Wilderness Plantation Roman fortlet
Wilderness Plantation Roman fortlet, on the Antonine Wall in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland; found by aerial photography in the 1950s, excavated 1965-66; bonded with the Wall, double-ditched, about 19.8 by 17.5 m internally.