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sea stack

noun

  1. a pillarlike mass of rock detached by wave action from a cliff-lined shore and surrounded by water.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sea stack1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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A post on the Mountaineering Scotland website describes the sea stack off Orkney as a "classic climb".

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Cody's father, Bill Weishaar Jr, described the sea stack as looking like a "skyscraper in New York but made of stone".

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Dan Bailey, who is the editor of UK Hillwalking, said it was the biggest sea stack in the UK.

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Cody started climbing at the age of two and already has a number of impressive sea stack climbs under his belt, including the equally daunting Old Man of Stoer in Sutherland.

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The silhouette of Haystack Rock, easily the coast’s most recognizable sea stack, standing against a sky painted in rainbow hues of pink, gold and blue, is pure Oregon magic.

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