The Sleeping Woman is a name or nickname for certain mountain formations located in different places in the world that are said to look like a reclining or deceased woman in the local tradition.

Ranges by the name of "The Sleeping Lady"

• Western United States (in all three cases, the nickname is associated with an apocryphal Native American legend of "The Sleeping Lady"):
  • Mount Susitna, near Anchorage, Alaska
  • Mount Timpanogos, near Provo, Utah[1]
  • Mount Tamalpais, near San Francisco, California.
• Algeria: Mount Chenoua, according to local tradition the mountain range looks like a reclining pregnant woman.[2]
• Cambodia: Phnom Kong Rei.[3]
• Chile, in the Andes, Valle del Maipo Chile.
• China:
  • Sleeping Beauty Range (睡美人山) near Kunming.[4]
  • Sleeping Beauty, Danxia near Shaoguan city.[5]
• Leonidio, in Arcadia, Peloponnese Greece.
• Martinique: Morne Larcher (Larcher Hill) called " la femme couchée" (the sleeping woman) is located in Diamant, Martinique.
• Mexico: Iztaccíhuatl
• Norway: Den Sovende Dronning (The Sleeping Queen), also known as Skjomtind, a mountain range near Narvik, Norway.
• Pakistan: Kohat valley mountain. A Mountain called 'Sleeping Beauty' is also located in Quetta, Pakistan.
• Panama, La India Dormida (The Sleeping Indian Woman) in El Valle de Anton.
• Peru, La Bella Durmiente (The Sleeping Beauty) in Tingo María
• Philippines: Sleeping Beauty, mountain in Kalinga province, northern Philippines.
• Taiwan: Mount Guanyin, in New Taipei City Taiwan.
• Thailand:
  • Doi Nang Non in the Daen Lao Range, northern Thailand.
  • Khao Nang Non in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, southern Thailand.

Similarly named mountains

• La Noyée (drowned lady). A mountain range seen from Notre-Dame-des-Monts, Quebec. Local legend says the mountains are the silhouette of a Native American woman who drowned while swimming across Lac Nairne to meet her lover.
• La Mujer Muerta (the dead woman). A mountain range located in the Sistema Central, Spain. Highest point La Pinareja, 2197 m.
• Turó de la Dona Morta (Dead Woman hill), a mountain near Maçanet de la Selva, Catalonia, Spain
• Jebel Musa (Morocco) the mountain is also known as The Dead Woman (Spanish: la Mujer Muerta), because from the direction of Ceuta, around the town of Benzú, it resembles a woman on her back.[6]
• The Virgin Gorda; Spanish for the fat virgin, as the island looks like an overweight woman lying on her side.

Ranges by the name of The Sleeping or the Dead Lady

See also

• Breast-shaped hill
• Dead woman
• Northumberlandia

Further reading

• Dixon, Ann. (1994). The Sleeping Lady. Anchorage, AK : Alaska Northwest Books. ISBN 0-88240-444-X (hardbound) ISBN 0-88240-495-4 (paperback)
• Robertson, David (1991). "Mt. Tamalpais: The Legendary Birth of a Holy Mountain". California History. 70 (2): 146–161.
• Skolnick, Sharon. (1989). Dreams of Tamalpais. San Francisco: Last Gasp. ISBN 0-86719-357-3

References

List of mountains with the same or similar names

This set index article includes a list of mountains that share the same name (or similar names).