Kummakivi
Kummakivi is a large balancing rock in Ruokolahti, Finland. The 7-metre-long boulder is a glacial erratic that lies on a convex bedrock surface with such a small footprint that it almost appears to be moving, but so firmly that it cannot be rocked with human force.- Stone
- …lies at an elevation of around 130 metres (430 feet)
- Description: rock formation in Ruokolahti, Finland
- Also known as“The Odd Stone”“The Strange Rock”
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Latitude
61.49333° or 61° 29′ 36″ north
Longitude
28.43009° or 28° 25′ 48″ east
Open location code
9GHCFCVJ+82
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=stone
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kummakivi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوماكيفي”
- Armenian: “Կումմակիվի”
- Asturian: “Kummakivi”
- Basque: “Kummakivi”
- Bengali: “কুম্মাকিভি”
- Bulgarian: “Кумакиви”
- Cebuano: “Kummakivi”
- Czech: “Kummakivi”
- Finnish: “Kummakivi”
- French: “Kummakivi”
- German: “Kummakivi”
- Hebrew: “קומאקיווי”
- Italian: “Kummakivi”
- Latvian: “Kumakivi akmens”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kummakivi”
- Russian: “Куммакиви”
- Swedish: “Kummakivi”
- Tamil: “கும்மகிவி”
- Ukrainian: “Куммаківі”
- Urdu: “کوماکوی”
- Vietnamese: “Kummakivi”
- Võro: “Kummakivi”
- Western Panjabi: “کوماکوی”
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