List of sea stacks explained
The following list enumerates and expands on notable sea stacks, including former sea stacks that no longer exist.
Antarctica
Asia
- 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
Europe
(coastal countries only)
Croatia
Faroe Islands
France
Germany
Greece
- Megalos Kalogeros
- Mikros Kalogeros
Iceland
Ireland
Isle of Man
- Sugarloaf Rock, Isle of Man
Italy
- 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
Russia
Spain
United Kingdom
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.
England
Wales
Scotland
See main article: List of sea stacks in Scotland.
- 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
Canada
- 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
United States
Oceania
Easter Island
- Motu Kau Kau, Easter Island
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