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Recent Examples of inselberg
Sun, wind, and water sculpted the sandstone into a dramatic, desolate, unearthly landscape of gorges and valleys, inselbergs and stacks, towering tassili and natural arches.
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Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
Geologists had suspected that these inselbergs, found in Brazil, Australia, and southern Africa, are old—enduring while erosion stripped away the surrounding landscape.
—Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019
Since the 1950s, more than 30 people have died climbing the sandstone inselberg, which juts up 1,142 feet from the surrounding plains.
—Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2017
This inselberg of nearly vertical Precambrian strata is about 2.5 kilometers long and more than 350 meters high
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—Brian Romans, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2008
Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
Geologists had suspected that these inselbergs, found in Brazil, Australia, and southern Africa, are old—enduring while erosion stripped away the surrounding landscape.
—Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019
Since the 1950s, more than 30 people have died climbing the sandstone inselberg, which juts up 1,142 feet from the surrounding plains.
—Deutsche Welle, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2017
This inselberg of nearly vertical Precambrian strata is about 2.5 kilometers long and more than 350 meters high
44.
—Brian Romans, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2008
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inselberg
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These cobalt crusts are found on seamount slopes, which contain vital metals such as cobalt, nickel, and platinum.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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The seamount is 250 miles north of Palau — an island country east of the Philippines — and multibeam sonar revealed its peak is hidden about 800 feet below the surface.—
Mark Price,
Sacbee.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The men claimed a pair of metal folding chairs set beside the campfire; Adi found a seat on a big knob of driftwood.—
Jonathan Miles,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Protect Hardware When Painting Painting can result in a real mess when stray streaks and drips land on handles, knobs, and pulls.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
26 Jan. 2026
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Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
20 Sep. 2019
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Away to the west, mountains rode the horizons, granite faced, severe, not the Andes yet, but the cordillera of the pre-Andes.—
Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Aug. 2019
Noun
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Earlier this month, a snowmobiler was killed in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range after an avalanche buried him in snow.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
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Away Lutsen Mountains is one of only a few ski resorts in the Midwest on an actual mountain range.—
Julia Sayers Gokhale,
Midwest Living,
7 Jan. 2026
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Rising amid the central sierras of Spain, this is the late-night city of Dalí and Hemingway, Ronaldo and Picasso, and those fast-talking '80s melodramas by Pedro Almodóvar.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Dec. 2025
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Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
14 Nov. 2022
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“Inselberg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inselberg. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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