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Shag Point / Matakaea is a headland and township in East Otago, New Zealand.
It is located close to State Highway 1 nine kilometres to the northeast of Palmerston, at the southern end of a long open bay known as Katiki Beach. The point itself is a hilly promontory between Katiki Beach and the mouth of the Shag River. Both the river and point take their English name fr...
On the western coast of Olkhon Island, close to Khuzhir, is Baikal's most famous landmark, the Shamanka, or Shaman's Rock. Natives believe that Burkhan, a modern religious cult figure of the Altai peoples, lives in the cave in this rock. The rock is one of nine most sacred places in Asia. Olkhon is considered a centre of Kurumchinskay culture of the 6th–10th cen...
Shannon Pot or Legnashinna (from Irish:Lag na Sionna, meaning "hollow of the Shannon") is a pool in the karst landscape in the townland of Derrylahan near Cuilcagh Mountain in County Cavan, Ireland. An aquifer-fed naturally fluctuating pool, it is the traditional source of the River Shannon.
The pool itself is about 16 m (52 ft) wide, and has been dived to −14.6...
Shark Bay is a World Heritage Site that lies 800 kilometres north of Perth, on the westernmost point of Australia. The bay itself covers an area of 10,000 km2, with an average depth of 10 metres. It is divided by shallow banks and has many peninsulas and islands. The coastline is over 1,500 km long. It is located in the transition zone between three major climati...
Shark Fin Cove (aka Shark Tooth Beach) is a large geologic feature visible from Highway 1, just up the coast from Santa Cruz, only 0.7 miles south of the town of Davenport. A famous rock, the Shark Fin, lies just off-shore. There are also some caves and an arch or tunnel, if you wish. It is best visited at low tide.
The Sheepeater Cliffs are a series of exposed cliffs made up of columnar basalt in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. The lava was deposited about 500,000 years ago during one of the periodic basaltic floods in Yellowstone Caldera, and later exposed by the Gardner River. The cliffs are noted as a textbook example of a basaltic flow with well defined ...
Sheep Rock is likely the third (after Tower Of Babel and The Organ) tallest tower in Arches National Park. Sheep Rock name comes from its resemblance to the namesake animal. There are two published routes on the formation that climb opposite sides of the tower (both are aid lines).
See the parks climbing rules here.
The Sheep Rock Unit is located on Highway 19, between the towns of Kimberly and Dayville, Oregon. Prominant, non-fossil bearing rocks date back as far as 95 million years old. Fossils of plants and animals are found in a number of geological layers dating from 33-7 million years ago.The Sheep Rock Unit is the hub of monument operations, with both the headquarters of t...
Shelta Cave is a 2,500-foot-long (760 m) cave and lake located in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, United States. It is described as one of the most bio-diverse caves within the Appalachian Mountains. The cave is currently owned and managed as a nature preserve by the National Speleological Society, with their main offices directly above the cave. It was declared ...
Named after the local term for an inlet, this national park provides nesting sites for turtles. The Shete Boka National Park is an area adjoining the Christoffel Park covering almost 10 kilometers of the rocky wave-exposed north coast of the island. The park has approximately 10 pocket bays where 3 species of sea turtles are known to lay eggs. A detailed map of the ...
Meretoto / Ship Cove is a small bay in the Queen Charlotte Sound — part of the Marlborough Sounds — in New Zealand. It is on the west coast of the Sound, just west of Motuara Island and Long Island.
The name Ship Cove was given by Captain James Cook on 15 January 1770 when his ship the Endeavour anchored there to replenish supplies of food, water and wood....
Shipka National Park is founded on the same area where the bloody battles of the Russian-Turkish Liberation War occurred during the 1870s. It represents a complex of memorial tablets, monuments, trenches, and bunkers reminiscent of the battle.
On the top of the mount at Shipka rises the "Freedom Monument". It was paid for by voluntary donations of the Bulgarian people...