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Djúpalónssandur Lifting stones in Djúpalónsandur in Iceland, weighing from top to bottom 23, 54, 100, and 154 kg. Djúpalónssandur ( Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈtjuːpaˌlounsˌsantʏr̥] ) is a sandy beach and bay on foot of Snæfellsjökull in Iceland.
Lifting a stone at Harri-jasotzaileak event in the Basque Country. Lifting stones are heavy natural stones which people are challenged to lift, proving their strength. They are common throughout Northern Europe, particularly Iceland (where they are referred to as steintökin), Ireland, Scotland, Basque Country, Faroe Islands, Wales, North West England centered around Cumbria, Switzerland ...
There is uncertainty on how to translate the proper name Omarolluk (and omar rocks). According to the records of the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation Natural Resources, the features Omarolluk Sound and Omarolluk Formation were named after Omarolluk, an Inuk man who accompanied and guided R. J. Flaherty on numerous geological surveys of the Belcher Islands and elsewhere in the ...
Granite is a hard stone and requires skill to carve by hand. Until the early 18th century, in the Western world, granite could be carved only by hand tools with generally poor results. A key breakthrough was the invention of steam-powered cutting and dressing tools by Alexander MacDonald of Aberdeen , inspired by seeing ancient Egyptian granite ...
Rota Latte Stone Quarry, also known as the As Nieves quarry, is located near the Chamorro village of Sinapalo, on the island of Rota in the Marianas Archipelago. The prehistoric megaliths found there are believed to have been used as foundation pillars for houses, with some of them weighing up to 35 tons.
The stone runs are essentially different from moraines, rock glaciers, and rock flows or other rock phenomena involving the actual flow of rock blocks under stress that is sufficient to break down the cement or to cause crushing of the angularities and points of the boulders. [4] By contrast, the stone run boulders are fixed quite stably ...
A cleit is a stone storage hut or bothy, uniquely found on the isles and stacs of St Kilda; whilst many are still to be found, they are slowly falling into disrepair. [1] There are known to be 1,260 cleitean on Hirta and a further 170 on the other St Kilda-group islands. [2] [1]
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