![]() ![]() Sadly, many of the valley’s famed rock art pieces have been badly vandalized, leading to much of the park being off-limits to the public as it is considered an archaeological preserve. For more information about the modern-day park please refer to my previous story, Written In Stone. Writing-On-Stone is one of my favourite places in the province and I have had the privilege of visiting several times over the years. Known as Áísínai’pi in the Blackfoot language, the park is aptly named as it roughly translates to “it is pictured/written”. Situated in the heart of the Blackfoot’s traditional territory the entire valley and beyond holds great cultural and spiritual significance for their People. The area is famous for the largest collection of First Nation rock art on the Great Plains of North America. Vast open prairies meet endless sky before giving way to an otherworldly landscape in the Milk River Valley. Google Earth Community Page about the discovery of the feature.Ĭoordinates: 50☀0′38.20″N 110☀6′48.32″W / 50.010611°N 110.1134222°W / 50.010611 -110.Writing-On-Stone is a provincial park in the southeast corner of Alberta near the Montana border.3D diagram of Badlands Guardian topography, prepared by Lutz Perschon for CBC Radio.Photo of the Badlands Guardian taken from a paraglider. ![]() #HIGH RESOLUTION BADLANDS GUARDIAN PC#↑ PCWorld In Pictures: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth PC World Staff J1:00 am."Top 10 Google Earth Finds: A Face in the Clay". ↑ As It Happens 3D rendering by CBC Radio.↑ 5.0 5.1 CBC Radio: As It Happens "Alberta's Aztec Rocker?" (Includes taped interview with geology professor Dr.It resembles a human head, wearing Native American headdress-and also appears to be naturally adorned with. "The Badlands Guardian, for example, a natural geologic formation near Alberta, Canada, was often visited by online aviators. Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sydney Morning Herald Article by Stephen Hutcheon: "Gran's canyon is a net sensation" November 13, 2006.↑ "Atlas Obscura names Alberta's 'Badlands Guardian' curious, hidden wonder | CBC News".Old Man of Hoy, a rock pillar off Scotland that resembles a standing man. ![]() Old Man of the Mountain, (former) rock profile in New Hampshire (collapsed on May 3, 2003).Marcahuasi, a plateau in the Andes, near Lima, Peru with numerous rock formations with surprising likenesses to specific animals, people, and religious symbols.Inuksuk, traditional Native Arctic peoples' stone "marker statuaries" in Alaska and Arctic Canada."Face on Mars", photographed by Viking 1 in 1976.Pareidolia, the phenomenon of perceiving faces in random patterns.Apophenia, the tendency to perceive connections between unrelated things.It is listed as the seventh of the top ten Google Earth finds by Time (magazine) magazine. PCWorld magazine has referred to the formation as a "geological marvel". The Badlands Guardian was also described by the Sydney Morning Herald as a "net sensation". They altered the suggested 'Guardian of the Badlands' to become Badlands Guardian. Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council. In 2006, suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. Its age is estimated to be in the hundreds of years at a minimum. Although the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave – that is, a valley, which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay, and is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion. The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water. Its scale is much larger than the figures of Mount Rushmore. The apparent earphones are a road and an oil well, which were installed recently and are expected to disappear once the project is abandoned. Additional man-made structures have been said to resemble a pair of earphones worn by the figure. #HIGH RESOLUTION BADLANDS GUARDIAN FULL#Viewed from the air, the feature has been said to resemble a human head wearing a full Indigenous type of headdress, facing directly westward. ![]()
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