Besides “Queen’s head”, Yehliu’s other named sea stacks include “Fairy’s Shoe”, “Bee’s Hive”, “Ginger Rocks” and “Sea Candles.” The formation is one of many that dot the 5,580-ft (1,700 m) long cape at Yehliu located on the north coast of Taiwan, between Taipei and Keelung. (images via: Viet Collection and Digital Taiwan)Ĭombining the haughtiness of a “we are not amused” Queen Victoria with the imperious regal countenance of an Egyptian princess, Queen’s Head is located neither in England nor Egypt, but Taiwan. Though not as “in your face” as the JFK Profile, both Lincoln Rock and Lincoln Profile show a distinct resemblance to ol’ Abe… honest! Queen’s Head The above scenic photo showing a restful and recumbent Lincoln was taken on Hwy 67 between Marfa and Presidio. Here’s another natural Lincoln doppelganger, located in West Texas’ Davis Mountains. Located in – where else? – Lincoln State Park overlooking the Columbia River, Lincoln Rock At the very least, he rocks… enough to have a strikingly familiar stony outcrop labeled Lincoln Rock in his honor. Say what you want about America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, but the dude totally rules. (images via: Minnesota Museum of the Mississippi and Matt Bergstrom and Philadelphia Biblical University) The so-called JFK Profile stands about 50 feet (15 m) high and is easily visible from the scenic road that winds its way through the Iao Valley. Stone outcrops that resemble generic human heads are one thing, those that evoke the countenance of an actual person are something else altogether! This startling likeness of the late President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in natural black lava can be found at Black Gorge in Iao Valley on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The above assortment of rocky human heads and profiles have been noted by so many people over a long enough time that they’ve been immortalized on picture postcards. (image via: Minnesota Museum of the Mississippi and Matt Bergstrom) Gone but not forgotten, the Old Man of the Mountain Revitalization Task Force installed coin-operated viewfinders that overlay an image of the Old Man prior to the collapse onto its current appearance.
Immediately following the formation’s collapse, popular dismay was so great that people visited the base of Cannon Mountain to leave bouquets of flowers as a tribute to the Old Man’s passing.
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Discovered by surveyors in 1805, the petrified profile has been New Hampshire’s state emblem since 1945 and continues to grace the state’s license plates, highway-route signs, and the back of New Hampshire’s 2000 Statehood Quarter. The “ Old Man of the Mountain” was more than a landmark, it symbolized the rough and stoic character of its home state, New Hampshire. One of the most famous human-shaped natural rock formations in the United States, if not the world, sadly crumbled to dust and pebbles on May 3rd, 2003. (images via: Outdoors Webshots, Absolute Astronomy and Travel Webshots) These 6 examples are from Turkey and have been named (clockwise from above left) by photographer Algis Kemezys as Armored Warrior, Sad Widow, Toothed Ancient and Zues’ Disdain.Ībove is one more Turkish mimetolith, dubbed The Goat Herder – looks more like The Goat Eater if you ask me… lookout, Billy! Old Man Of The Mountain Mimetoliths, rocks “the shape of which resembles something else”, range from loose stones to large natural topographic features.
Wave erosion over millions of years have carved the pretty pink granite rocks scattered along the shore into a plethora of anthropomorphic figures and faces, a sampling of which is shown above. The “Cote de Granit Rose” at Ploumanach in France’s northwestern province of Brittany offers the serious pareidoliac a virtual field day. (images via: Getty Images, Schnapz and Getty Images)
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