World Heritage Site
The Giant's Causeway is the only World Heritage Site in Northern Ireland.
The Giant's Causeway was inscribed on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986, meeting two of the criteria used by UNESCO to define natural World Heritage Sites.
Criteria one concerns "outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features".
Criteria three refers to sites with "superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance."
Ramsar sites
Ramsar Sites are wetlands of international importance usually supporting large numbers of breeding or over wintering birds. The National Trust has five properties in four of Northern Ireland's Ramsar sites.
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