Rock needle
A rock needle , also known as a rock tower or rock pinnacle , is a more or less free-standing, relatively slender, tower-like rock.
Examples are the summit of the Aiguille du Midi in the Montblanc massif, the almost 43 m high Barbarine on the south side of the Pfaffenstein near Königstein , the Bischofsmütze , the Drei Zinnen , the Vajolet towers in the Dolomites and the Fiamma in the Bergell .
The Latin word for rock pinnacle is scopulus (see Scuol ).
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Cerro Torre 3,133 m (south flank ~ 2150 m), Patagonia , Argentina / Chile
Barbarine (43 m high), Saxon Switzerland
Vajolet Towers 2,790 m (main tower 120 m high), South Tyrol, Italy
Khao Ta-Pu (known as " James Bond Island") off Khao Phing Kan , Thailand
Finger cliff 35 m high, Namibia
Totem Pole (137 m high) in Monument Valley , USA
