Once I showed you amazingly split stones - the Devil's stones to Karl-Karl. And here is another beautiful option.
Shattered Apple Mountain is a geologic formation in the Gulf of Tasman, located off the northern coast of New Zealand's South Island.
During the study of the mountain, it was revealed that the split occurred naturally, however, when this happened is still unknown.
About the origin of the "apple" New Zealand aborigines Maori tell the following legend: the stone "fruit" is a symbol of the uncompleted love of the beautiful daughter of one of the local gods and a simple fisherman. God allegedly set an impracticable condition for an unwanted marriage: it could happen only after the young couple fastened the two halves of the stone apple. As you might guess from the photo, the young did not cope. This is just a romantic legend - but there is no other explanation where a single granite block of almost perfect spherical shape with a perfectly regular fracture and a diameter of more than 6 meters came from on the coast of the Tasman Sea.
Oddly enough, most of the visitors to Split Apple Rock are New Zealanders (although they, it would seem, should have become familiar with the rock for a long time). The secret is simple: despite the legend, "apple" is the most popular place for wedding photo sessions in the country.
Split Apple Rock is just one of many attractions in Abel Tasman National Park, open all year round.
Well, since such a topic has already come in, here's another option for you:
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And here is where it is and who cut it …
Tayma Oasis is located in the Tabuk province, 220 km southeast of the city of Tabuk. Tayma occupies a relatively flat plain at the western edge of the Al Nafud Desert, east of the Western Shield region, which includes a volcanic ridge known as Harrat Al 'Uwayrid.
And this is the famous Al Nasalaa stone.
Scientists say that this is just weathering, but I think it is: