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Papuk UNESCO Global Geopark

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The House of the Pannonian Sea is a recently renovated visitor centre in Velika that features one of Papuk’s most interesting geological stories, that of the long-gone Pannonian Sea.The Geo Info Centre in Voćin is the perfect starting point for getting to know the Papuk UNESCO Global Geopark through a multimedia and interactive exhibition.Explore over 200 km of marked hiking trails in Papuk, supported by a long mountaineering tradition, six hiking shelters, and an active network of 24 mountainee

Papuk UNESCO Global Geopark in HR
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CategoryUNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK
LocationHR
DatasetUNESCO Global Geoparks
Listed/year2015
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness95%
SignificanceGLOBAL GEOHERITAGE; 52,400 ha

The oddity, explained

Why is Papuk UNESCO Global Geopark unusual?

Papuk UNESCO Global Geopark appears here because the approved source classifies it as natural world. The source describes it as The House of the Pannonian Sea is a recently renovated visitor centre in Velika that features one of Papuk’s most interesting geological stories, that of the long-gone Pannonian Sea.The Geo Info Centre in Voćin is the perfect starting point for getting to know the Papuk UNESCO Global Geopark through a multimedia and interactive exhibition.Explore over 200 km of marked hiking trails in Papuk, supported by a long mountaineering tradition, six hiking shelters, and an active network of 24 mountainee. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.

Evidence and further exploration

The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.

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