List of rock formations that resemble human beings
Appearance
A list of rock formations worldwide that resemble human beings.
Germany
- Lange Anna, Heligoland
Israel
Italy
- Stone Sentry or Pope's Rock, Tavolara Island, Sardinia
Canada
- Badlands Guardian, a valley in Alberta that resembles a human profile when viewed from the air
- Shawinigan,Québec has a rock that resembles an old lady, giving the name to the former city of Grand-Mère, now a part of the City of Shawinigan since 2002. It resembles an old woman with a bun at the base of her head ("grand-mère" is French for grandmother). The rock formation was pulled from the bottom of the Saint-Maurice River in the 19th century before the construction of a dam and is now in a small park overlooking the river.
Poland
- Giewont, a mountain whose shape resembles a lying human, associated with a legend of the sleeping knight
United Kingdom
- Old Man of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland, a rock pillar that resembles a standing man
- Old Man of Stoer, Sutherland, Scotland
- Old Harry Rocks, Dorset, England
- The Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland when viewed from a northerly direction resemble a man lying down, with Slieve Binnian forming the man's facial features. Local legend says that the mountains formed when the Irish Giant Fionn mac Cumhaill (anglicised as Finn McCool) lay down to sleep.[1]
United States
- Grandfather Mountain State Park, series of mountains in North Carolina that resemble a reclining man.
- Mother Ann, a rock formation in Massachusetts that resembles the silhouette of reclining woman
- Mummy Mountain (Nevada)
- Old Man of the Mountain, a rock formation in New Hampshire that collapsed in 2003
- Sleeping Giant (Connecticut), several mountains in Connecticut that resemble a reclining man
- Sleeping Giant (Kauai), a mountain ridge in Hawaii that resembles a reclining man
- Ute Mountain, a series of mountains in Colorado that resemble a reclining man
- Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah contains numerous eroded surfaces which resemble facial profiles.
- Mount Mansfield, a mountain in Vermont that resembles the silhouette of the face of a reclining man.
Extraterrestrial
- Cydonia Mensae, a rock formation on Mars said to look like a human face