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An obelisk is a tall, four-sided monument.
Obelisk may also refer to:
Geography
- Obelisk Beach, a beach in New South Wales, Australia
- Obelisk Col, a mountain pass on James Ross Island in Antarctica
- Obelisk Mountain, a mountain in Antarctica
- Obelisk Hill, a former name of Monument Hill, the site of the Fremantle War Memorial
- Obelisk Islet, an island in the Torres Strait in Queensland, Australia
Fiction
- Obelisk, a fictional weapon in the game Command & Conquer
- Obelisk the Tormentor, a Yu-Gi-Oh! God card
- "The Obelisk", a minicomic in the Masters of the Universe comic line
Music
Other uses
- Obelisk (hieroglyph), an Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph
- Obelisk (Prague Castle), a monolith and World War I monument in Prague, Czech Republic
- Obelisk (Sanssouci), a structure at the eastern entrance to Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, Germany
- Obelisk (typography) or dagger (†), a typographical symbol
- Obelisk posture, a position that some dragonflies and damselflies assume to avoid overheating
- Obelisk Press, a Paris publisher
- Obelisk ship, a type of ship historically used to transport obelisks
- The Obelisk, a painting by Hubert Robert (1733-1808)
See also
- Monolith
- Obelism
- Obelix, a character in the Asterix comic strips
- Obelus, a symbol (÷) which is distinct from the symbol called obelisk or dagger
- Stele
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