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Giesselith©

Huge interconnected stone arches branching off from rough pillars, Giesseliths are a geological

feature unique to the Isle of Monsters. These puzzling expressways to nowhere are found from the wrakken steppes to the very edge of the Northern Tarbog.

 

No two are alike. Many combine stairs with high, arching ramps. Some double-back on themselves for no known purpose. Some spiral gracefully. Others zig-zag.

 

What exactly are the Giesseliths? How did they come to be? Do they have a function?

 

Could they be natural structures formed by erosion?

Are they the ruins of doomed Viking settlements?

Religious temples of visiting Polynesians?

Alien observatories?

Mini-Golf for Pirates?

 

It seems likely that the creation and purpose of the Giesseliths will forever remain a mystery.

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Uploaded on December 19, 2007
Taken on December 19, 2007