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This Rock Formation Looks Like an ElephantOn the island of Heimaey off the southwestern coast of Iceland is a rock formation called Halldórsskora – “Elephant Rock”. That’s an appropriate name because, if you view it from the right angle, it gives the impression of an elephant dipping its trunk in the ocean for a drink.Other viewers, the tourism website Guide to Iceland asserts, say that the formation looks like H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu rising from the depths of the abyss, his octopean head crashing through the surface of the ocean.I like that interpretation better.-via My Modern Met | Photo: Wikimedia user Diego Delso#Iceland #geography #rockformations #elephants #apophenia

Explore Some of America's Wildest placesThe United States is a really big country- the fourth largest in the world, both in area and in population. And we have extreme terrain, from tall mountains to some places below sea level, dry hot deserts,tropical rainforests, and all kinds of surprising places places in between. Let's take a look at some those places.

6 Mysterious Structures Hidden Beneath the Greenland Ice SheetYou recall the old joke about place names: Iceland is nice and green, but Greenland is covered with ice. Specifically an ice sheet 9,800 feet (3,000 meters) thick. You might wonder what, exactly, is underneath all that ice. Thanks to radar technology, we are getting an idea, and it appears the geography of Greenland is quite varied. For example, it contains the longest canyon in the world! Discovered in 2013, the canyon stretches 460 miles (740 kilometers) from the highest point in central Greenland to Petermann Glacier on the northwest coast. That's significantly longer than China's 308-mile-long (496 km) Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, the longest canyon on the planet that you can actually see. The canyon plunges up to 2,600 feet (800 m) deep in places and is 6 miles (10 km) wide. For comparison, the Grand Canyon in Arizona averages about 1 mile (1.6 km) deep and 10 miles (16 km) across. Parts of the canyon may route meltwater from beneath the ice sheet to the sea. It probably formed before the ice sheet and was once the channel for a mighty river. There are also mountains, huge freshwater lakes, meteor craters, fossils, and more! Learn the secrets Greenland is keeping on ice (for the moment) at Space.com. -via Damn Interesting (Image credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ Cynthia Starr)#Greenland #icesheet #glacier #geography