Lot's Wife (crag)
Lot's Wife (孀婦岩, Sōfu Iwa or Sōfu Gan?) is a volcanic, deserted island located in the Philippine Sea approximately 650 kilometres (400 mi) off the coast of Tokyo, in the southernmost tip of the Izu archipelago, Japan.
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Izu Islands |
| Coordinates | 29°47′39″N 140°20′31″E / 29.79417°N 140.34194°E / 29.79417; 140.34194 |
| Archipelago | Izu Islands |
| Area | 0.01 km2 (0.004 sq mi) |
| Length | 84 m (276 ft) |
| Width | 56 m (184 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 99 m (325 ft) |
| Country | |
| Japan | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 0 |
Famous quotes containing the words lot and/or wife:
“The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something tricklike about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)