Sailing stones

Geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention
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Sailing stones
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Sailing stones

Summary

Sailing stones is a geological phenomenon[1]. It draws 369 Wikipedia views per month (geological_phenomenon category, ranking #1 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sailing stones is in the country of United States[3].
  • Sailing stones's image is recorded as Death-Valley-Recetrack.jpg[4].
  • Sailing stones's instance of is recorded as geological phenomenon[5].
  • Sailing stones's subclass of is recorded as stone[6].
  • Sailing stones's Commons category is recorded as Sliding rocks of Racetrack Playa[7].
  • Sailing stones's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 36.681295, 'lon': -117.562694}[8].
  • Sailing stones's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02pbr8v[9].
  • Sailing stones's different from is recorded as Pierres vivantes[10].
  • Sailing stones's Atlas Obscura place ID is recorded as the-sailing-stones-of-racetrack-playa-inyo-california[11].

Why It Matters

Sailing stones draws 369 Wikipedia views per month (geological_phenomenon category, ranking #1 of 8).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Sailing stones. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/sailing-stones
MLA “Sailing stones.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/sailing-stones.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_sailing-stones_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Sailing stones}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/sailing-stones}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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