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Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms covering 5,800 square feet (540 m 2) of ground. Giant Rock is the largest freestanding boulder in North America and is purported to be the largest free standing boulder in the world. [1]
Here's a timeline of key events at Giant Rock, a landmark north of Landers, Calif., that attracts seekers, partiers, conservationists and, according to some, extraterrestrials.
Giant Rock, adjacent to Landers, California View to the NE of Goat Mountain in Landers, California, with the Goat Mountain Astronomical Research Station in foreground There is an annual fireworks event in Landers, California, held at its recreational park and ball field
George Van Tassel was a former aircraft mechanic and flight inspector who moved to California's Mojave Desert to operate an airport and inn. While there, he began meditating under Giant Rock, which the Native Americans of the area held sacred. In August 1953, Van Tassel claimed he had been contacted both telepathically and later in person by ...
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At age 20, he moved to California, where he worked as an automobile mechanic at a garage owned by an uncle. [1] While pumping gas at the garage, Van Tassel met and befriended Frank Critzer, an eccentric loner who claimed to be working a mine somewhere near Giant Rock, a 7-story boulder near Landers, California in the Mojave Desert.
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Anorthosite Moon rock collected by Apollo 15 astronauts. Giant's Boot: Giant's Causeway, County Antrim, Northern Ireland: Giant Rock: near Landers, California, United States: Freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert. Giebichenstein boulder: Stöckse, Lower Saxony, Germany: One of the largest erratic boulders in northern Germany Glen Rock