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House of Wonders in Stone Town, multi-storey arcaded façade.Moongateclimber · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Timeline

From summit to stone and protected land

A timeline of natural and architectural heritage as the sources fix it: Kilimanjaro’s documented 1889 ascent, Serengeti National Park in 1940, Ngorongoro Conservation Area in 1959, then UNESCO inscriptions for Ngorongoro 1979, Serengeti 1981, Kilimanjaro 1987 and Stone Town 2000, plus Nyerere National Park in 2019.

  1. 1889

    Documented ascent of Kilimanjaro’s summit (Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtscheller).

  2. 1940

    Serengeti National Park established.

  3. 1959

    Ngorongoro Conservation Area established.

  4. 1979

    Ngorongoro inscribed on the World Heritage List.

  5. 1981

    Serengeti among Tanzania’s UNESCO properties.

  6. 1987

    Kilimanjaro National Park inscribed as World Heritage.

  7. 2000

    Stone Town of Zanzibar inscribed as cultural World Heritage.

  8. 2019

    Nyerere National Park created from northern former Selous.