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The following list enumerates and expands on notable sea stacks, including former sea stacks that no longer exist.
Antarctica edit
- Denais Stack, King George Island
- Cutler Stack, Livingston Island
- Neptune's Bellow, Deception Island
- The Monolith, Buckle Island
Asia edit
- Po Pin Chau, High Island, Hong Kong
- Tri Brata, Kamchatka, Russia
- Ko Tapu, Phang Nga Bay, Thailand
- Bako National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
- Lot's Wife or Sofugan, Japan (isolated volcanic stack, not a coastal stack)
- Pigeon's Rock, Lebanon
Australia edit
- Ball's Pyramid, Lord Howe Island Group (isolated volcanic stack, not a coastal stack)
- Nobby Islet, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
- The Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria
- The Nobbies on Phillip Island, Victoria
- The Totem Pole in Tasmania
Europe edit
(coastal countries only)
Croatia edit
- Cape Kamenjak
Faroe Islands edit
France edit
- Les Aiguilles de Port-Coton, Belle-Île
- L'Aiguille, Étretat, Seine-Maritime
- Les Jumeaux, Hendaye
Germany edit
Greece edit
- Megalos Kalogeros
- Mikros Kalogeros
Iceland edit
Ireland edit
- Cnoc na Mara, Donegal
- Branaunmore, County Clare
- Dún Briste, Ballycastle, County Mayo
- An Searrach, Kinard, Dingle, County Kerry
Isle of Man edit
- Sugarloaf Rock, Isle of Man
Italy edit
- Faraglioni, Capri
- Baia dei Mergoli, Mattinata, southern Italy
- Torre Sant'Andrea, southern Italy
- Acitrezza, Sicily
- Faraglioni, Scopello, Trapani, Sicily
- Isola del Giglio, Tuscany
- Nebida and Masua, Iglesias, south-western Sardinia
- Scoglio dell'Ulivo, Palmi
- Gargano Promontory, Zagare Bay, Apulia
Portugal edit
- Praia da Dona Ana and Ponta da Piedade, Lagos
- Praia da Marinha, Lagoa, Algarve
Russia edit
Spain edit
United Kingdom edit
Mellor (2020) lists 70 stacks in England, 10 in Wales and 275 in Scotland of which circa 110 are located around the coasts of Shetland.[1]
England edit
- Bedruthan Steps, Cornwall, England
- The Needles, Isle of Wight, England
- Old Harry Rocks, Dorset, England
Wales edit
Scotland edit
- Am Buachaille, Sutherland
- Duncansby Stacks, Caithness
- Dunnicaer, Aberdeenshire (stack with remains of Pictish hill fort)
- Old Man of Hoy, Orkney
- Old Man of Stoer, Sutherland
- Rockall, North Atlantic (isolated volcanic stack, not a coastal stack)
- Stac an Armin and Stac Lee, St Kilda
- Stac Dhomnuill Chaim, Lewis
- Yesnaby Castle, Orkney
North America edit
Canada edit
- The Big Flowerpot, Flowerpot Island, Lake Huron
- Three Sisters, Eatonville, Nova Scotia
- Percé Rock, Percé, Quebec
- Hopewell Rocks, Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick
- Siwash Rock, Vancouver, British Columbia
Mexico edit
United States edit
Oceania edit
Easter Island edit
- Motu Kau Kau, Easter Island[2]
Footnotes edit
- ^ Mellor 2020, pp. 5–6.
- ^ Boersema 2015, p. 31.
References edit
- Boersema, Jan J. (2015) [original Dutch version 2011]. The Survival of Easter Island. Translated by Webb, Diane. Cambridge University Press.
- Mellor, Chris (Jan 2020). "An illustrated guide to sea stack climbing in the UK & Ireland" (PDF). needlesports. Retrieved 23 Jan 2021.