Stone Faces Gazetteer
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Indian Head Rock Face visible from the highway through the Steamboat Mountains |
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The Head Outcrop along Hope-Princeton Highway MNM#01-01295 |
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The Face Rock Face on cliff above the Grand River MNM#01-01174 |
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The Old Friar MNM#01-01338 |
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Old Man of "The Ovens" MNM#01-01205 |
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Indian Head Rock / Tête d'Indien Also known as "the Indian who never sees the sea." - photo |
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N 58° 40.289', W 123° 52.313'Ecuador
Cara del Inca MNM#01-01186 |
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England
Queen Bess Rock MNM#01-01208 |
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Profile Rock MNM#01-01206 |
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Dr. Johnson MNM#01-01021 |
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Man's Head Rock MNM#01-01189 |
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Sphinx Rock |
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Bowerman's Nose A 21-foot granite tor, or stack of weathered rock on the slope of a grassy hill. MNM#01-01316 |
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Man's Head Rock Profile on cliff above the Rivelin Hotel, now hidden behind undergrowth and trees. Was once visible from east and west far down the Rivelin valley. MNM#01-01271
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France
Tête de Femme Rock outcrop on beach near Cannes MNM#01-01289 |
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La Tête de Mort One of many unusual rock formations on the Brittany's "Pink Granite Coast." Skull-like rock formation in unknown location among many similar rounded rock outcrops near Ploumanach. MNM#01-01328 |
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Père Trébeurden One of many unusual rock formations on the Brittany's "Pink Granite Coast." MNM#01-01111 |
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La Tête de Mort One of many unusual rock formations on the Brittany's "Pink Granite Coast." Skull Rock at end of beach includes an unusual small stone house built into a gap between two rock outcrops. The villa Beg-ar-Vir is visible behind the rock formation. MNM#01-01330 |
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Le Rocher de la Tête One of many unusual rock formations on the Brittany's "Pink Granite Coast" MNM#01-01273 |
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Le Rocher du Sphinx One of many unusual rock formations on the Brittany's "Pink Granite Coast." Unclear if this is the same rock which is nowadays known as Sphinx Rock. MNM#01-01329 |
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Tête de Capucin MNM#01-01215 |
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Tête de Louis XVI MNM#01-01224 |
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Tête de Femme MNM#01-01327 Possibly this formation of a woman's head is one of a group of face-like outcrops along the shore known by a Celtic term as "Les Cinq Pineaux" or "The Five Heads". |
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Japan
Stone That Looks A Man's Face MNM#01-01217 |
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New Zealand
Old Man of the Mountain Rugged face overlooking Tasman Glacier above Ball Hut shelter. The face is not on the boulder outcrop, but on the mountain slope below it MNM#01-01277 |
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Maori Chief Rock Limestone sea stack off Pororari beach with a crown of greenery. Located a little more than a mile north of the similar sea stack Nelson's Head. MNM#01-01219 |
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Nelson's Head Sea stack resembling Admiral Nelson at the end of the end of Dolomite Point amidst other limestone formations eroded by the sea into unusual shapes including layered "pancake" rocks and passages which fill with surging water at high tide. A mile or so south of the similar sea stack Maori Chief Rock. MNM#01-01337 |
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Northern Ireland
Giant's Head Rock MNM#01-01211 |
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Portugal
Cabeça da Velha One of five stone faces on Serra da Estrela mountain MNM#01-01266 |
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Romania
Great Bucegi Sphinx Famous sculpted formation on a mountaintop in Bucegi Natural Park |
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Banatean Sphinx / Sfinxul Banatean Visible while heading north on E70 road across the valley approximately 5km north of Toplet MNM#01-01220 |
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Scotland
Grey Man of the Merrick
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Sweden
Hoburgsgubben A sign near this limestone sea stack indicates the best position to see the old man's face MNM#01-01212 |
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Switzerland
Sphinx Rock or Tête de Calvin A rocky bust of John Calvin projecting from the cliff above Lac des Brenets on the French-Swiss border MNM#01-01274 |
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Taiwan
Queen Head The most famous of many unusual hoodoos at Yehliu Geopark MNM#01-01065 |
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