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Rock Islands Southern Lagoon

Mixed UNESCO site of 445 uninhabited limestone islands in Palau, whose cave deposits, burials, rock art and abandoned stonework villages bear testimony to nearly three millennia of small island communities harvesting marine resources; six of Palau's known rock-painting sites lie within its boundaries.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1,000 BCE mainstream
  earliest evidence of settlement and marine resource use in the Rock Islands (approximate) source
• 2012 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a mixed cultural/natural UNESCO World Heritage Site source

Where

7.2500° N, 134.3667° E

Sources

• https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1386

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