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DSC04293 Viewed: 131 times.
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The Giants Causeway Viewed: 146 times.
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The Giants Causeway consists of approximately 40,000 polygonal basalt columns jutting into the sea beneath sheer cliffs that form a series of headlands and bays. Viewed: 159 times.
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Local folklore offers an explanation for the causeway’s creation. Viewed: 147 times.
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One day, Finn MacCool was going about his businesswhen the Scottish giant Benandoner began taunting him from across the channel. Viewed: 153 times.
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MacCool began tearing large chunks from the cliffs and pushing them into the ocean bed, building a sturdy causeway between Northern Ireland and Scotland. Viewed: 154 times.
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"The Wishing Well" Viewed: 147 times.
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DSC04302 Viewed: 137 times.
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Finn MacCool's causeway Viewed: 144 times.
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DSC04306 Viewed: 150 times.
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DSC04307 Viewed: 134 times.
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"The Organ" from a distance. Viewed: 144 times.
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We both we really there. Viewed: 155 times.
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The mostly six-sided (but also four, five, seven and eight-sided) stones were created by the cooling and shrinking, along regular lines of force, of molten lava from a vast volcanic eruption. Viewed: 142 times.
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When the lava flowed into the sea, it cooled quickly, crystallizing into the polygonal patterns. Viewed: 141 times.
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