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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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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
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Or book a berth aboard the eight-passenger Water and Wind catamaran to sites that include Princess Alice Bank, where huge schools of jack, tuna, and barracuda cloud the seamount.—
Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
11 Sep. 2025
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It’s made from durable, attractive stainless steel and has ergonomic knobs that are easy to grip.—
Christopher Murray
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FOXNews.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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With a jeweled design, bee detail accents, an amber lid knob, and a wooden handle, this tea kettle is elegant from top to bottom.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
12 Oct. 2025
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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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After breakfast, drive north from Palma about 25 minutes to the Serra de Tramuntana, a rugged mountain range (and UNESCO World Heritage Site) that covers the island’s northwest coast.—
Emilio Parra Doiztua,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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The storm is also bringing heavy snow to the Sierra Nevada, with snowfall totals forecast to be in excess of 3 feet in some parts of the mountain range.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 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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Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.—
Gregory Thomas,
SFChronicle.com,
17 Sep. 2020
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“Inselberg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inselberg. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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