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Shiprock
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English
Alternative forms
en Ship Rock
Etymology
From en ship rock, from the peak's resemblance to a 19th-century clipper ship.
Proper noun
A monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet (482.5 m) above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States.
Autumn Spanne Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/crazy-rock-formations 2018-07-17 Shiprock is the remnants of a volcano that erupted more than 30 million years ago. https://web.archive.org/web/20251217005651/https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/crazy-rock-formations 17 December 2025