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Lot's wife (center) turned into a pillar of salt during Sodom's destruction (Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493). The story appears to be based in part on a folk legend explaining a geographic feature. [3] A pillar of salt named "Lot's wife" is located near the Dead Sea at Mount Sodom in Israel. [4]
A rock formation nearby venerated as Lot's wife as a pillar of salt. The Monastery of St Lot is a Byzantine-period monastic site near the Dead Sea in Jordan, at the entrance to a natural cave, which Christians believed to have been the one where Lot and his daughters sought shelter after Sodom was destroyed (Genesis 19:24–25). [1]
The formation takes its name from a fourth needle-shaped pillar called Lot's wife, which collapsed in a storm in 1764. [4] The remaining rocks are not at all needle-like, but the name has stuck. The Needles were featured on the BBC Two TV programme Seven Natural Wonders (2005) as one of the wonders of Southern England .
The beacon is locally known as "Lot's Wife", [2] after the Biblical woman turned into a pillar of salt. [3] The beacon has become a recognizable part of Baltimore's landscape, and one of the area's defining landmarks. [2] [1] The structure is featured on photographs and paintings of Baltimore.
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The island is a basalt pillar with sheer sides, the only visible portion of a submarine volcanic caldera extending 2.6 kilometres (1.6 mi) south-east at an average depth of 240 metres (790 ft). The above sea-level portion measures approximately 84 metres east-west and 56 metres north-south, with a summit height of 99 metres (325 ft).
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"Lot's Wife" pillar, Mount Sodom, Israel; Lot's Wife and Lot, rock formations in Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic; Lot's Wife, nickname of Long Ya Men, a craggy granite outcrop in Keppel Harbour, Singapore, destroyed in 1848; Lot's Wife, a chalk pillar once part of The Needles formation off the Isle of Wight, UK, until its collapse in 1764