The extension of the natural World Heritage property of Jungfrau -
Aletsch - Bietschhorn (first inscribed in 2001), expands the site to the
east and west, bringing its surface area up to 82,400 ha., up from
53,900. The site provides an outstanding example of the formation of the
High Alps, including the most glaciated part of the mountain range and
the largest glacier in Eurasia. It features a wide diversity of
ecosystems, including successional stages due particularly to the
retreat of glaciers resulting from climate change. The site is of
outstanding universal value both for its beauty and for the wealth of
information it contains about the formation of mountains and glaciers,
as well as ongoing climate change. It is also invaluable in terms of the
ecological and biological processes it illustrates, notably through
plan succession. Its impressive landscape has played an important role
in European art, literature, mountaineering and alpine tourism.
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