The
High Coast is a part of the
coast of
Sweden on the
Gulf of Bothnia, situated in the municipalities of
Kramfors,
Härnösand and
Örnsköldsvik and notable as a type area for research on
post-glacial rebound and
eustacy, in which the land rises as the weight of the
glaciers melts off of it. This phenomenon was first recognised and studied there; since the last
ice age the land has risen 800 m, which accounts for the unusual landscape with tall cliff formations. The High Coast is part of the Swedish/Finnish High Coast/Kvarken Archipelago
World Heritage Site (the High Coast was joined with the Finnish
Kvarken areas in 2006).