Classification and system analysis of marine cultural landscapes

Marine cultural landscape is one of the important types of the new world heritage- cultural landscapes. Based on the Classification methods of cultural landscapes, considering the spatio-temporal character and regional features of marine historical cultural, marine cultural landscapes were classified 6 types. It included relics and ruins landscape, Historic site landscape, Historic vernacular landscape, settlement landscape, associative cultural landscape and cultural routes or cultural itinerary. Physical geography factors are marine cultural landscape´s foundation, and humanity factors are its leading factors. Marine cultural landscapes contain both very strong, pronounced physical colors and artificial marks. As a concept, Marine cultural landscape is composed by three component parts, they are physical foundation, marked material and recessive material.