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A list of rock formations worldwide that resemble human beings.
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Brazil
edit- Pedra da Gávea is a mountain in Rio de Janeiro whose resemblance to a human head sparked several pseudoarchaeological theories over the years (see Archaeological interest of Pedra da Gávea).
Canada
edit- Sleeping Giant, Thunder Bay, Ontario
- Roche Bonhomme, Jasper National Park, Alberta
Israel
edit- "Lot's Wife", a pillar of salt near the Dead Sea at Mount Sodom[1]
Jordan
edit- Lot's Wife, another pillar of salt with this name, also near the Dead Sea, not far from the ruins of the Byzantine Monastery of St Lot[2]
Poland
editUnited Kingdom
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- The Old Man of Hoy in Orkney is a rock pillar that from certain angles is said to resemble a standing man.[5]
- Queen Victoria's Rock on the Isle of Barra is a rock formation near Northbay on the north side of the A888, looking toward the west, which resembles the profile of the elderly Queen Victoria.[6]
- The Winking Man Rock formation (also known as the Winking Eye[7]) is part of the Ramshaw Rocks section of The Roaches. It looks like a face sticking out of the hillside, and as you travel past in a car towards Buxton the 'eye' appears to wink, as a pinnacle of rock passes behind the face as a consequence of parallax.[8][7] A public house near Ramshaw Rocks at Upper Hulme takes its name from the Winking Man rock.[9]
- The Sleeping Warrior is the profile of the peaks of the island of Arran.[4]
United States
edit- Old Man of the Mountain, Franconia, New Hampshire[10]
- Sleeping Giant, Hamden, Connecticut
- The Indian Head, Lincoln, New Hampshire[10]
- Profile Rock, Massachusetts
- Sleeping Giant, Steamboat Springs, Colorado[citation needed]
- Ute Mountain, Colorado
- Lincoln Rock, Washington
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ Lefond, Stanley J. (2012). Handbook of World Salt Resources. Springer. p. 337. ISBN 9781468407037.
- ↑ "Lot's Wife". See the Holy Land. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
- ↑ "Giewont". SummitPost.org.
- 1 2 Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland, year=2000, p. 44, ISBN 9780007103539
- ↑ Barrett, Kate (1963). "My Old Man". Radio Scotland. Archived from the original on January 27, 2019. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ↑ Mackenzie-Winters, Daniel (July 17, 1996). "Isle of Barra". The Internet Guide to Scotland. Archived from the original on October 8, 1999. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
- 1 2 Rodgers, Frank (1979). Curiosities of the Peak District. Ashbourne: Moorland Publishing. p. 148. ISBN 0903485478.
- ↑ "The Winking Man". The Megalithic Portal. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ↑ "The Winking Man – Upper Hulme". Visit Peak District. Visit Peak District & Derbyshire 2023.
- 1 2 "Four years after Old Man's fall, another N.H. rocky profile gets attention". Associated Press. May 10, 2007. Archived from the original on March 7, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2021 – via USA Today.