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Driving along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia, you will see a lot of beautiful scenery, including some famous limestone stacks just off the coast in Port Campbell National Park. What is the Biblical name of this formation? |
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Near Hyden, Western Australia, there is a large rock whose north side resembles something that is definitely not hard as a rock. What is the name of this spectacular rock formation? |
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Near the top of a hill in Hong Kong is Amah Rock. Its Cantonese name (Mong Fu Shek) literally means "the stone that is gazing out for her husband." What does this stone woman appear to have with her as she gazes for her husband? |
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The Queen's Head, which you can visit near the coast of Taiwan, looks like the head of an Egyptian queen (think Nefertiti) on a slender neck. What is the geological term for this type of formation, created when a soft sedimentary rock under a harder stone is eroded to leave a column with a larger rock shape at the top? |
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Continuing north into China, we reach Huangshan (Yellow Mountains), a region famous for its oddly-shaped pine trees, as well as for its numerous unusual rock formations. Which of the following will you NOT see here? |
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The Fairy Chimneys of Cappadocia, Turkey are formed from an erosion-resistant basalt layer on top of cylindrical pillars of volcanic ash that has solidified into the soft rock called tuff or tufa. What is unusual about the Fairy Chimney Inn in the village of Goreme? |
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Near the western end of the Mediterranean Sea stands a monolithic limestone promontory known in Arabic as Jab al-Tariq, and with a Latin name of Mons Calpe. What is its most common name in English? |
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In Dartmoor, Great Britain, there is another granite stack that resembles a human face (with a bit of imagination). Its local name only refers to one feature of a human face, without which it would be hard to sniff out the answer to this question. What is it called? |
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The Giant's Causeway in Country Antrim, Northern Ireland, is a spectacular formation consisting of interlocking basalt columns. Some portions of this have their own special name, because of their resemblance to other objects. Which of these musical formations is found overlooking the Giant's Causeway? |
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Traveling on to Utah, we reach Arches National Park, featuring many natural arch formations. What is the fragile-sounding name of the most famous of these? |
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