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  2. Sleeping Giant (Connecticut) - Wikipedia

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    Sleeping Giant (also known as the Blue Hills and Mount Carmel), (Hobbomock in Quinnipiac), [3] is a rugged traprock mountain with a high point of 739 feet (225 m), located eight miles (13 km) north of New Haven, Connecticut. A prominent landscape feature visible for miles, the Sleeping Giant receives its name from its anthropomorphic ...

  3. List of rock formations that resemble human beings - Wikipedia

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    The Sleeping Warrior — the profile of Arran, [2] here seen from Bute. The Old Man of Hoy in Orkney is a rock pillar that from certain angles is said to resemble a standing man.

  4. Sleeping Giant (Ontario) - Wikipedia

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    The Sleeping Giant is a series of mesas formed by the erosion of thick, diabase sills on Sibley Peninsula which resembles a giant lying on its back when viewed from the west to north-northwest section of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. As one moves southward along the shoreline toward Sawyer's Bay the Sleeping Giant starts to separate into its ...

  5. Mount Susitna - Wikipedia

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    Mount Susitna, also known as Sleeping Lady, (Dena'ina: Dghelishla) is a 4,396-foot (1,340 m) mountain in the U.S. state of Alaska.It is located on the west bank of the lower Susitna River, about 33 miles (53 km) northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. [1]

  6. Apennine Colossus - Wikipedia

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    The giant was able to sweat and weep over a network of water pipes. [5] In the winter season, icicles would cover his body. [5] The work was made of stone and plaster and appearing to be partially covered with moss and lichens. [11] Within the giant exist a series of chambers and caves on three levels. [5]

  7. Sleeping Giant (Kauai) - Wikipedia

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    Sleeping Giant, also known as Nounou Mountain, [1] is a mountain ridge located west of the towns Wailua and Kapaʻa in the Nounou Forest Reserve on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi. The formation received its common English name both from its resemblance to a reclining human figure, and from a Native Hawaiian legend about a giant who, after great ...

  8. Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area - Wikipedia

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    The Sleeping Giant wilderness study area is an important habitat for mountain goats. The Sleeping Giant region is a roughly rectangular area bounded by Interstate 15 on the west and Holter Lake on the east, the south boundary runs from the Hilger Valley to the Ming Bar , and the north boundary runs from the northern edge of the Oxbow Bend of Holter Lake to Interstate 15.

  9. Cribarth - Wikipedia

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    Cribarth (nicknamed the Sleeping Giant) [1] is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Powys, Wales, in the traditional county of Brecknockshire.The summit lies on the broken ridge at an elevation of 428 m (1,404 ft) at OS grid reference SN 831143.