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==UNESCO's World Heritage== On September 19, 2023, Anticosti was inscribed on [[UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists|UNESCO]]'s World Heritage List. It is recognized for its exceptional [[fossil]] assemblage representing the first global mass extinction of animal life on Earth.<ref name="UNESCO inscription 2023">{{cite web |title=Anticosti inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2023/09/anticosti-inscribed-on-unescos-world-heritage-list.html |website=Parks Canada |access-date=28 February 2024 |date=September 19, 2023 |quote=There are currently more than 1,440 known fossil species on Anticosti Island}}</ref> Located within protected areas<ref name="Network of protected areas in Quebec" /> free from any industrial activity, the site is endowed with exceptionally well-preserved, abundant and diverse fossil fauna. This Anticosti fauna represents the first mass extinction of animal life on a global scale, 447 – 437 million years ago, at the end of the [[Ordovician]] period.<ref name="UNESCO World Heritage Convention">{{cite web |title=Anticosti |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1686/ |website=UNESCO World Heritage Convention |access-date=28 February 2024 |ref=1686 |date=2023 |quote=Anticosti is the best natural laboratory in the world for the study of fossils and sedimentary strata from the first mass extinction of life at the end of the Ordovician period}}</ref> <gallery widths="160" mode="packed" heights="120" caption="Vauréal Canyon"> File: Chute Vauréal - Anticosti.jpg|Cliff wall, fall and Vauréal River<ref name="Vauréal canyon">{{cite web |title=Vauréal canyon |url=https://toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/Fiche.aspx?no_seq=138840 |website=Commission de toponymie Quebec |publisher=Commission de Toponymy Quebec |access-date=29 July 2024 |language=fr |date=1984-10-04 |quote=... 3 kilometer canyon, whose walls can reach more than 90 meters in height}}</ref> File:Anticosti_fossiles_001.jpg|[[Fossil]] [[tabulate coral]], in the gravel, at the foot of the wall File:Anticosti_fossiles_006.jpg|Fossil to be identified, in the gravel, at the foot of the wall </gallery> The Vauréal River, with its source in Lake Vauréal, flows 25 km, south then northeast, in the eastern part of the island. The salmon go up the river to the Vauréal Falls, 13 km from the coast, crossing the Vauréal canyon where the river is enclosed between two [[limestone]] walls.<ref name="Vauréal River toponymy">{{cite web |title=Vauréal River |url=https://toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/Fiche.aspx?no_seq=65245 |website=Quebec Gouvernement |publisher=Commission de Toponymy Quebec |access-date=29 July 2024 |language=fr |date=1968-12-05 |quote=Originally, it was known under the name Morsal or Maujerol in memory of a French Huguenot from Avignon.}}</ref><ref name="Vauréal canyon" />
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