One of the things I got from my two weeks trip to explore pre-Angkorian and Dvaravati arts with ICOMOS international experts in Cambodia and Thailand is the problem of drafting …
Frederik Dawson
Member since June 2006
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My most impressive site: Rapa Nui, Yellowstone
My proposal for a new site: Royal palaces and temples in Bangkok / Engineering Feats of Niagara Falls / Panama Canal / Haussmann's Paris
Recent Visits
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10May 19, 2025Nan Madol
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10April 21, 2025Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
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50March 7, 2025Bryggen, Rjukan / Notodden, Røros, Urnes Stave Church, West Norwegian Fjords
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About Frederik Dawson
- First name
- Frederik
- Member since
- June 2006
- Country of Origin
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- #60
- WHS
- 489
- Tentative Sites
- 82
Website Participation
- Reviews
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Ratings
Ratings
World Heritage Sites
- Pyramids (Memphis) 5.0
- Te Wahipounamu 5.0
- Angkor 5.0
- Yellowstone 5.0
- Teotihuacan 5.0
- Gunung Mulu 5.0
- Rapa Nui 5.0
- Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch 4.5
- Rome 4.5
- Vienna 4.5
- Prague 4.5
- West Norwegian Fjords 4.5
- Rock Islands 4.5
- Kremlin and Red Square 4.5
- Vatnajökull National Park 4.5
- Uxmal 4.5
- Dolomites 4.5
- Florence 4.5
- Nasca Lines 4.5
- Chichen-Itza 4.5
- Ellora Caves 4.5
- Borobudur 4.5
- Loire Valley 4.5
- Ajanta Caves 4.5
- Vatican City 4.5
- Mesa Verde 4.5
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou 4.5
- Redwood 4.5
- Siena 4.5
- Paris, Banks of the Seine 4.5
- Bukhara 4.5
- Ravenna 4.5
- Samarkand 4.5
- Amsterdam Canal Ring 4.5
- Imperial Palace 4.5
- Machu Picchu 4.5
- Sukhothai 4.5
- Grand Canyon 4.5
- Wulingyuan 4.5
- Prambanan 4.5
- Glacier parks 4.5
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks 4.5
- Granada 4.5
- Venice and its Lagoon 4.5
- St. Petersburg 4.5
- Ancient Kyoto 4.5
- Cordoba 4.0
- Westminster 4.0
- Gwynedd Castles 4.0
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France 4.0
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire 4.0
- Grand Place, Brussels 4.0
- Versailles 4.0
- Vézère Valley 4.0
- Edinburgh 4.0
- Major Town Houses 4.0
- Canterbury 4.0
- Sigiriya 4.0
- Polonnaruva 4.0
- Ancient Nara 4.0
- Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 4.0
- Skocjan Caves 4.0
- Itsukushima Shrine 4.0
- Mexico City and Xochimilco 4.0
- Historic Cairo 4.0
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama 4.0
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley 4.0
- Archaeological Site of Delphi 4.0
- Bauhaus Sites 4.0
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago 4.0
- Dazu Rock Carvings 4.0
- Hué 4.0
- Grand Canal 4.0
- Rietveld Schröderhuis 4.0
- Great Wall 4.0
- Itchan Kala 4.0
- Ayutthaya 4.0
- Churches of Peace 4.0
- Ujung Kulon National Park 4.0
- Tugendhat Villa 4.0
- Kinabalu Park 4.0
- Bali Subak system 4.0
- Budapest 4.0
- Taj Mahal 4.0
- Longmen Grottoes 4.0
- Qhapaq Ñan 4.0
- Cesky Krumlov 4.0
- Chan Chan 4.0
- Cuzco 4.0
- Hill Forts of Rajasthan 4.0
- Fatehpur Sikri 4.0
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor 4.0
- Carlsbad Caverns 4.0
- Chaco Culture 4.0
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha 4.0
- Taos Pueblo 4.0
- Santa Maria delle Grazie 4.0
- Québec 4.0
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa) 4.0
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands 4.0
- Old Town of Lijiang 4.0
- Ping Yao 4.0
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries 4.0
- Koh Ker 4.0
- South China Karst 4.0
- Summer Palace 4.0
- Temple of Heaven 4.0
- Three parallel rivers of Yunnan 4.0
- Assisi 4.0
- Dinosaur Provincial Park 4.0
- Acropolis 4.0
- Lake District 4.0
- Schönbrunn 4.0
- Sambor Prei Kuk 4.0
- Works of Antoni Gaudí 4.0
- Toledo 4.0
- Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles 4.0
- Brugge 4.0
- Seville 4.0
- Fortified City of Carcassonne 4.0
- Lyon 4.0
- Mont-Saint-Michel 4.0
- Plain of Jars 4.0
- Segovia 4.0
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau 4.0
- Valletta 3.5
- Sydney Opera House 3.5
- Salzburg 3.5
- Wachau Cultural Landscape 3.5
- Preah Vihear Temple 3.5
- China Danxia 3.5
- Mount Wutai 3.5
- Silk Roads: Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor 3.5
- West Lake 3.5
- Yungang Grottoes 3.5
- Albi 3.5
- Avignon 3.5
- Bordeaux 3.5
- Bourges Cathedral 3.5
- Causses and Cévennes 3.5
- Decorated cave of Pont d'Arc 3.5
- Fontainebleau 3.5
- Nancy 3.5
- Strasbourg 3.5
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex 3.5
- Fujisan 3.5
- Genbaku Dome 3.5
- Gusuku of Ryukyu 3.5
- Himeji-jo 3.5
- Kii Mountain Range 3.5
- Nikko 3.5
- Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution 3.5
- Hoi An 3.5
- My Son 3.5
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang 3.5
- Trang An 3.5
- Western Tien-Shan 3.5
- Dong Phayayen 3.5
- Quito 3.5
- Valparaiso 3.5
- Arequipa 3.5
- Manu National Park 3.5
- Mammoth Cave 3.5
- Statue of Liberty 3.5
- Genoa 3.5
- San Gimignano 3.5
- Verona 3.5
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas 3.5
- Villa d'Este 3.5
- Agra Fort 3.5
- Churches and Convents of Goa 3.5
- Humayun's Tomb 3.5
- Western Ghats 3.5
- City of Luxembourg 3.5
- Kinderdijk 3.5
- Van Nellefabriek 3.5
- Bahla Fort 3.5
- Tubbataha Reefs 3.5
- Belem 3.5
- Convent of Christ in Tomar 3.5
- Monastery of Batalha 3.5
- Oporto 3.5
- Sintra 3.5
- Aachen Cathedral 3.5
- Bamberg 3.5
- Lübeck 3.5
- Luther Memorials 3.5
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island) 3.5
- Potsdam 3.5
- Regensburg 3.5
- Trier 3.5
- Wartburg Castle 3.5
- Puebla 3.5
- Tongariro National Park 3.5
- Visby 3.5
- Anuradhapura 3.5
- Bellinzone 3.5
- The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier 3.5
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple 3.5
- Blenheim Palace 3.5
- Durham Castle and Cathedral 3.5
- Kew Gardens 3.5
- Stonehenge 3.5
- Avila 3.5
- Route of Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Salamanca 3.5
- Santiago de Compostela 3.5
- Trinity Sergius Lavra 3.5
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe 3.5
- Medici Villas and Gardens 3.5
- Pienza 3.5
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum 3.5
- Aquileia 3.5
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan 3.5
- Great Spa Towns of Europe 3.5
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay 3.5
- Everglades 3.5
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi 3.5
- Yogyakarta 3.5
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park 3.5
- Olympic National Park 3.5
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region 3.5
- Bom Jesus do Monte 3.5
- Alto Douro 3.5
- Mycenae and Tiryns 3.5
- Mystras 3.5
- Berat and Gjirokastra 3.5
- Corfu 3.5
- Olympia 3.5
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra 3.5
- Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto 3.5
- Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe 3.5
- Yakushima 3.5
- Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas 3.5
- Urnes Stave Church 3.5
- Nan Madol 3.5
- Haeinsa Temple 3.0
- Pimachiowin Aki 3.0
- Cuenca 3.0
- Huascaran National Park 3.0
- Gyeongju 3.0
- Fagus Factory 3.0
- Central University City Campus of the UNAM 3.0
- Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries 3.0
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River 3.0
- Lima 3.0
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites 3.0
- Megalithic Temples of Malta 3.0
- Mount Etna 3.0
- Elephanta Caves 3.0
- Joya de Ceren 3.0
- Drottningholm 3.0
- Independence Hall 3.0
- León Cathedral 3.0
- Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy 3.0
- Plantin-Moretus Museum 3.0
- Villa Adriana (Tivoli) 3.0
- Guanacaste 3.0
- Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz 3.0
- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai 3.0
- Venetian Works of Defence 3.0
- Willemstad 3.0
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies 3.0
- Cold winter deserts of Turan 3.0
- City of Bath 3.0
- Hawaii Volcanoes 3.0
- Darien National Park 3.0
- Flemish Béguinages 3.0
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves 3.0
- Antequera Dolmens Site 3.0
- Semmering Railway 3.0
- Amami-Oshima Island 3.0
- Phu Phrabat 3.0
- Belfries 3.0
- Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro 3.0
- Kaeng Krachan Forest 3.0
- Vézelay 3.0
- Epidaurus 3.0
- Burgundy 3.0
- Pearling 3.0
- Wadden Sea 3.0
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church 3.0
- Dorset and East Devon Coast 3.0
- Rammelsberg and Goslar 3.0
- Camino Real 3.0
- Forth Bridge 3.0
- Saint-Emilion 3.0
- Reims 3.0
- University of Coimbra 3.0
- Quedlinburg 3.0
- Maritime Greenwich 3.0
- Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor 3.0
- Stralsund and Wismar 3.0
- Si Thep 3.0
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae 3.0
- Studley Royal Park 3.0
- Würzburg Residence 3.0
- Southern Öland 3.0
- Hallstatt-Dachstein 3.0
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn 3.0
- Pont du Gard 3.0
- Orange 3.0
- Eisinga Planetarium 3.0
- Naumburg Cathedral 3.0
- Niah Caves 3.0
- Gaya Tumuli 3.0
- Sian Ka'an 3.0
- Chartres Cathedral 3.0
- El Escurial 3.0
- Champagne 3.0
- Ban Chiang 3.0
- Coa Valley and Siega Verde 3.0
- Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal 3.0
- Novgorod 3.0
- Novodevichy Convent 3.0
- Amiens Cathedral 3.0
- Beijing Central Axis 3.0
- Central Highlands 3.0
- Melaka and George Town 3.0
- Roskilde Cathedral 3.0
- Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng 3.0
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple 3.0
- Qal'at al-Bahrain 3.0
- Horyu-ji Area 3.0
- Sangay National Park 3.0
- Luang Prabang 3.0
- Jeju 3.0
- Pannonhalma 3.0
- Ferrara 3.0
- Old Town of Galle 3.0
- Shiretoko 3.0
- Hwaseong Fortress 3.0
- Sinharaja Forest 3.0
- Speyer Cathedral 3.0
- Røros 3.0
- Etruscan Necropolises 3.0
- Urbino 3.0
- Val d'Orcia 3.0
- Singapore Botanic Gardens 3.0
- Macao 3.0
- Qutb Minar 3.0
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk 3.0
- Abbey of St Gall 3.0
- Kaiping Diaolou 3.0
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District 3.0
- Jantar Mantar 3.0
- Litomysl Castle 3.0
- Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces 3.0
- Paphos 3.0
- Maulbronn Monastery 3.0
- Old City of Berne 3.0
- Imperial Tombs 3.0
- Hahoe and Yangdong 3.0
- Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes 3.0
- Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona 3.0
- Bryggen 3.0
- Monastery of Alcobaça 2.5
- Zollverein 2.5
- Campeche 2.5
- Luis Barragán House and Studio 2.5
- Mafra 2.5
- Hiraizumi 2.5
- Engelsberg Ironworks 2.5
- Falun Great Copper Mountain 2.5
- Skogskyrkogarden 2.5
- Royal Joseon Tombs 2.5
- Kandy 2.5
- Jongmyo Shrine 2.5
- La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle 2.5
- Evora 2.5
- Ivrea 2.5
- Namhansanseong 2.5
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal 2.5
- Tower of London 2.5
- Provins 2.5
- Butrint 2.5
- Fortifications of Vauban 2.5
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye 2.5
- Yaroslavl 2.5
- Kronborg Castle 2.5
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley 2.5
- Mount Qingcheng and Dujiangyan 2.5
- Longobards in Italy 2.5
- Primeval Beech Forests 2.5
- San Marino and Mount Titano 2.5
- Via Appia 2.5
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape 2.5
- Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz 2.5
- Kutna Hora 2.5
- Centennial Hall 2.5
- Völklingen Ironworks 2.5
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch 2.5
- The Four Lifts 2.5
- Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai 2.5
- Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region 2.5
- Telc 2.5
- Baekje Historic Areas 2.5
- Schwerin Residence Ensemble 2.5
- Evaporitic Karst and Caves 2.5
- Kladruby nad Labem 2.5
- Aranjuez 2.5
- Papahanaumokuakea 2.5
- Thingvellir 2.5
- Surtsey 2.5
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 2.5
- Panamá 2.5
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo 2.5
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy 2.5
- Botanical Garden, Padua 2.5
- San Antonio Missions 2.5
- Stone Spheres of the Diquís 2.5
- Ruins of León Viejo 2.5
- Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont 2.5
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 2.5
- Cahokia Mounds 2.5
- Rjukan / Notodden 2.5
- Keoladeo National Park 2.5
- Red Fort 2.5
- Fortress of Suomenlinna 2.5
- Vat Phou 2.5
- Shakhrisyabz 2.5
- Seowon, Neo-Confucian Academies 2.5
- Thang Long 2.5
- Aflaj irrigation system 2.5
- Baroque Churches 2.5
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 2.5
- Guimarães 2.5
- Tomioka Silk Mill 2.5
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust 2.5
- Classical Weimar 2.5
- Cologne Cathedral 2.5
- Graz 2.5
- Town Hall and Roland, Bremen 2.5
- Choirokoitia 2.5
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty 2.0
- Derwent Valley Mills 2.0
- Holy Trinity Column 2.0
- Rhaetian Railway 2.0
- Benedictine Convent of St. John 2.0
- Corvey 2.0
- Heritage of Mercury 2.0
- Reichenau 2.0
- Ironbridge Gorge 2.0
- Trebic 2.0
- Monte San Giorgio 2.0
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates 2.0
- Poverty Point 2.0
- Holasovice 2.0
- Tusi Sites 2.0
- Lenggong Valley 2.0
- Birka and Hovgarden 2.0
- Karlskrona 2.0
- Par force hunting landscape 2.0
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun 2.0
- Beemster Polder 2.0
- Dutch Water Defence Lines 2.0
- Canal du Midi 2.0
- Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine 2.0
- Blaenavon Industrial Landscape 2.0
- Hedeby and Danevirke 2.0
- Stevns Klint 2.0
- Jelling 2.0
- Moravian Church Settlements 2.0
- Fertö/Neusiedlersee 2.0
- Prehistoric Pile Dwellings 2.0
- Danube Limes 2.0
- Lower German Limes 2.0
- ShUM Sites 2.0
- Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats 2.0
- Rideau Canal 2.0
- Modena 2.0
- Mining Sites of Wallonia 2.0
- Shirakami-Sanchi 2.0
- The Prosecco Hills 2.0
- Viking Age Ring Fortresses 2.0
- Alcala de Henares 2.0
- Okinoshima Island 2.0
- Saltaire 2.0
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 2.0
- Dilmun Burial Mounds 2.0
- New Lanark 2.0
- Australian Convict Sites 2.0
- Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa Dolmen 1.5
- Royal Exhibition Building 1.5
- Colonies of Benevolence 1.5
- Jewish-Medieval heritage of Erfurt 1.5
- Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 1.5
- Schokland 1.0
Tentative Sites
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Reviews by Frederik Dawson


Si Thep (Inscribed)
Si Thep
I was fortunate to join ICOMOS international experts two weeks field trip to Cambodia and Thailand exploring pre-Angkorian and Dvaravati arts and this trip took me to Dvaravati Si Thep, …

Sambor Prei Kuk (Inscribed)
Sambor Prei Kuk
I was fortunate to join ICOMOS international experts two weeks field trip to Cambodia and Thailand exploring pre-Angkorian and Dvaravati arts and Sambor Prei Kuk was one of the many …

Vézelay (Inscribed)
Vézelay
The first thing we encountered at Vezelay was the long queue at parking meter, foreigners seemed to have problem with it and locals seemed to be happy with the situation. …

Burgundy (Inscribed)
Burgundy
With great amazement, despite many trips to Cote d’Or with my family, I sadly found out that our favorite vineyards are outside UNESCO designated zone, and apart from having lunch …

Jelling (Inscribed)
Jelling
After reading many reviews in this community, we felt less interest to visit and really had no expectation from Jelling Site but to be able to complete all World Heritage …

Skocjan Caves (Inscribed)
Skocjan Caves
I visited Skocjan Cave in 2019, it was my favorite site in Slovenia but decided to wait and not to write a review until the decision of “Classical Karst” by …

Baekje Historic Areas (Inscribed)
Baekje Historic Areas
After four days of great joy in southwestern South Korea seeing many interesting sites, my friends and I drove back from Jeonju to Seoul in early morning with a plan …

Chichen-Itza (Inscribed)
Chichen-Itza
Originally, I planned to visit this world-famous site two times in two days, first day in the evening and next day early morning in order to avoid the hoard of …

Modena (Inscribed)
Modena
To be honest my experience was tainted with my personal negative view toward this World Heritage Site, another Italian Romanesque cathedral in another Italian old beautiful renaissance city, everything seemed …

Dilmun Burial Mounds (Inscribed)
Dilmun Burial Mounds
I visited Dilmun Burial Mounds before UNESCO recognized its status. This World Heritage site was part of my private half day tour around Bahrain. Actually, It was not a part …

Hawaii Volcanoes (Inscribed)
Hawaii Volcanoes
Late Autumn 2019 my friends unexpectedly canceled our group’s anticipated road trip from Halifax to Ottawa, Canada and changed to Hawaii instead with dubious reason that they wanted surf, sun …

Rock Islands (Inscribed)
Rock Islands
I was fortunate to finish my business trip in Taiwan few days before the pandemic reached this nation and the rest of Asia. During my time in Taiwan, I decided …

Aranjuez (Inscribed)
Aranjuez
When I looked at the list of all World Heritage Sites around Madrid, Aranjuez was the least interesting site in my initial opinion; however, after visited the place, it became …

Cuenca (Inscribed)
Cuenca
During my short business trip to Madrid, I had another chance to spend weekend to explored nearby World Heritage sites. I had dilemma between Zaragoza and Cuenca, but decided to …

Reichenau (Inscribed)
Reichenau
Despite my friend’s week long architectural tour was mainly focus on Southern Bavaria, certain addition, as demanded by a fussy World Heritage enthusiast, were located in Baden Württemberg, the three …

Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Inscribed)
Pilgrimage Church of Wies
During our architectural tour in Southern Bavaria, my friends and I had seen many abbeys, chapels and churches, “too many” according to my friends’ mourned, and this World Heritage Site …

Hal Saflieni Hypogeum (Inscribed)
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
When I planned to visit Malta, Hypogeum was the most interesting site I really wanted to see. I did a reservation online even though the meaning of Hypogeum for me …

Okinoshima Island (Inscribed)
Okinoshima Island
After I visited the World Heritage Site of Okinoshima, to be exact I only visited the mainland part of Munakata Grand Shrine, the Hetsumiya, I really confused what should I …

Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Mona… (Inscribed)
Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries
I was a bit skeptical for this site before I visited since I already have been to Haeinsa and Bulguksa temples, so I was curious on the outstanding universal value …