UNESCO World Heritage Site Nomination
In November 2010, the Government of Gibraltar announced that Gorham's Cave would be put forward for potential nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Professor Clive Finlayson, Director of the Gibraltar Museum, is responsible of co-ordinating the efforts to achieve such nomination. The first step has been the submission of a proposal to the United Kingdom cultural authorities in order to get Gorham's Cave added to the UK's World Heritage Tentative List. Such a list is revised every 10 years, and the process for a new list was ongoing at the date of the submission.
In May 2012 Gorham's Cave was, along with the Forth Rail Bridge, on the short list of two sites that have been forwarded for submission to UNESCO.
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