List of rock formations that resemble human beings

Brazil

• Pedra da Gávea is a mountain in Rio de Janeiro whose resemblance to a human head sparked several pseudoarchaeological theories over the years (see Archaeological interest of Pedra da Gávea).

Canada

• Sleeping Giant, Thunder Bay, Ontario
• Roche Bonhomme, Jasper National Park, Alberta

Israel

• "Lot's Wife", a pillar of salt near the Dead Sea at Mount Sodom

Jordan

• Lot's Wife, another pillar of salt with this name, also near the Dead Sea, not far from the ruins of the Byzantine Monastery of St Lot

Poland

• Giewont, a mountain whose shape resembles a lying human, associated with a legend of the sleeping knight

United Kingdom

• The Old Man of Hoy in Orkney is a rock pillar that from certain angles is said to resemble a standing man.
• Queen Victoria's Rock on the Isle of Barra is a rock formation near Northbay on the north side of the A888, looking toward the west, which resembles the profile of the elderly Queen Victoria.
• The Winking Man Rock formation (also known as the Winking Eye) is part of the Ramshaw Rocks section of The Roaches. It looks like a face sticking out of the hillside, and as you travel past in a car towards Buxton the 'eye' appears to wink, as a pinnacle of rock passes behind the face as a consequence of parallax. A public house near Ramshaw Rocks at Upper Hulme takes its name from the Winking Man rock.
• The Sleeping Warrior is the profile of the peaks of the island of Arran.

United States

• Old Man of the Mountain, Franconia, New Hampshire
• The Indian Head, Lincoln, New Hampshire
• Profile Rock, Massachusetts
• Sleeping Giant, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
• Ute Mountain, Colorado
• Lincoln Rock, Washington

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