Punakaiki Pancake Rocks, South Island in New Zealand

Arranged inside Paparoa Public Park on the west bank of New Zealand's South Island, the Punakaki Hotcake Rocks are on a totally different level. These swelling limestone points of support were made quite a while back when dead marine animals arrived on the seabed. Huge water pressure set their parts and quake movement gradually pushed the recently framed support points upwards. Wind and seawater at long last shaped the stones into the flapjack like designs we see today.