Fragments of an Earlier World

Stone Faces Gazetteer
Antropomorphic Features

Arizona

Thumb Butte
Prescott

    Some early settlers viewing this outcrop from the south saw a hand with a prominent thumb, while others viewing from the west saw a sphinx.

    GPS N 34° 32.809', W 112° 31.160'

Illinois

Devil's Nose
Starved Rock State Park

Sandstone outcrop south of Starved Rock overlooking no-longer-used trail above French Canyon

GPS N 41° 19.217', W 88° 59.393'

Nebraska

Giant's Thumb
Crawford

New York

Anthony's Nose
Cortlandt

    900-foot mountain on the east bank of the Hudson River is thought to have been named in the 1600s after the prominent nose of Antoine de Hooges, secretary of the Rensselaerswyck colony at Albany

    MNM#01-01335

    GPS N 41° 19.126', W 73° 58.579'

North Carolina

Nose End Rock
Linville

Nose End
Whiteside Mountain

    A rock nose without a face.

    MNM#01-01031

Utah

Molar Rock
Canyonlands National Park

Molly’s Nipple
Hurricane

Big Stoney
Kodachrome Basin

Vermont

The Chin
Mount Mansfield

Wisconsin

Devil's Thumb
Ashland

    Rock pillar at end of hand-like small island, possibly in Apostle Islands?

    MNM#01-02018

Switzerland

The Tooth of Jaman
Avants, Vaud

Tête d'Indien

Thailand

Hinta & Hinyai
Koh Samui

    "Grandfather" and "Grandmother" natural rock formations are located near each other on the southeast coast of Ko Samui island

    MNM#01-01112

    GPS N 9° 27.118', E 100° 02.390'


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