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AUSTRALIAN RECORDS

Largest Sea Stacks

Ball’s Pyramid is 562 metres high, 1,100 metres long, and less than 300 metres wide at its widest point at the base. It claims to fame is being the tallest sea-stack on the planet. By definition, a sea stack differs from a sea cliff in that sea stacks are independent rock formations which rise vertically from the sea and not attached to any other island. Balls Pyramid was considered unscalable by Lord Howe islanders, due to the sheer cliffs, lack of landing points, and exposure to the elements.

Balls Pyramid

Slightly smaller but just as impressive is Meyer Rock in the Southern Ocean which also happens to be Australia’s western-most point of land.

Meyer Rock. Southern Ocean Sea stack. Image: Heritage Cruises

Off Cape Hauy on the Tasman Peninsula are a collection of Sea Stacks including the Candle Stick and the Totem Pole.

 

Totem Pole. Image RJ Andrews

GES Record: Largest Sea Stack in the world. Balls Pyramid.  561 metres (Source: Colin Woodroffe. Uni of Woolongong)

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