Rock Art of Alta World Heritage Site

Official name

Rock Art of Alta | UNESCO

Country

Norway | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

Alta municipality, county of Finnmark
69.9500° Lat, 23.1833° Lon | Map

Code

352

Time Zone

Europe/Oslo (CET, +0100)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1985. This group of petroglyphs in the Alta Fjord, near the Arctic Circle, bears the traces of a settlement dating from c. 4200 to 500 B.C. The thousands of paintings and engravings add to our understanding of the environment and human activities on the fringes of the Far North in prehistoric times.