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Try Iceland if you don’t think that the elephant island from the masterpiece One Piece is real

Unexpectedly, the elephant island Zou in the thousand-episode masterpiece One Piece is real in real life but still insanely beautiful like this. If you are lucky enough to fly over Iceland, don’t be too surprised when you come across an image of an elephant swimming in the deep blue water. It is the famous rock (also […]

Unexpectedly, the elephant island Zou in the thousand-episode masterpiece One Piece is real in real life but still insanely beautiful like this.

If you are lucky enough to fly over Iceland, don’t be too surprised when you come across an image of an elephant swimming in the deep blue water. It is the famous rock (also known as elephant island) of this place that was created by lava there.

Elephant Island
(Photo: Imgur)

The “elephant” lava rock in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, Iceland. The origin of this stone was created by the great merits of the indigenous people. Specifically, in 1973, the Eldfell volcano erupted, people pumped cold sea water to redirect the flow of lava into the harbor. And that diverted lava flow gathered in the middle of the sea to form the elephant cliff we see today.


Elephant Island
(Photo: Imgur)

Unlike other lava blocks, this cliff is favored by mother nature and molded into a shape like a giant elephant, which makes people excited from every angle. The lapping waves at the foot of the cliff accidentally create more wrinkles like the rough skin of an elephant, making the cliff more vivid.

Nature is indeed ingenious when the color, eye socket, long trunk, big ears of the largest land animal match perfectly with this rock. And surely, the lively Zou Island in the One Piece story was inspired by author Oda Eiichiro on this famous cliff. Let’s admire a few more pictures of this “elephant” rock:

Elephant Island
(Photo: Imgur)

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