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 (CEST, +0200)
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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.