Giants Kettle
A giant's kettle, also known as either a giant's cauldron, moulin pothole, or glacial pothole, is a typically large and cylindrical pothole drilled in solid rock underlying a glacier either by water descending down a deep moulin or by gravel rotating in the bed of subglacial meltwater stream.Giants Kettle
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Address: Mäntyharju
- Category: tourism
- Location: Mäntyharju, Mikkeli, South Savonia, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.39525° or 61° 23′ 43″ north
Longitude
27.11868° or 27° 7′ 7″ east
Open location code
9GH994W9+3F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
attraction=geological
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
“Giants Kettle” goes by many names.
- Finnish: “Hiidenkirnu”
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