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.
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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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