The Giant's Causeway is a famous tourist attraction in Northern Ireland, which was declared a World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986. Legend has it that in ancient times the Irish giants were going to duel with the Scottish giants, so they dug stone pillars, filled the seabed, and paved the causeway leading to Scotland, and the rear embankment was destroyed, leaving only the remains of the present. Geologists studied the structure and found that this natural staircase was formed by the repeated overflow of lava after the continuous eruption of an active volcano. After the erosion of the waves, the stone pillar group is truncated at different heights, and the landform of the stone pillar forest with jagged height is presented. On the coast of the "Giant's Causeway", more than 40,000 such basalt columns are arranged irregularly and stretch for several kilometers, which is magnificent and spectacular.
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In the headlands of the edge of the Antrim Plain in Northern Ireland, along the foothills of the coastal cliffs, there are about 37,000 hexagonal, pentagonal, quadrilateral stone pillars composed of about 37,000 hexagonal or pentagonal stone pillars protruding from the sea, from the cliffs to the sea, standing on the shores of the sea for thousands of years.
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The cross-sectional width of the pillars that make up the Giant's Causeway is between 37 and 51 centimeters, the typical width is about 0.45 meters, and it lasts about 6,000 meters long. Most of these columns are hexagonal, but there are also many quadrilateral, pentagonal, heptagonal and octagonal columns, the widest point of the headland is about 12 meters wide, and the narrowest point is only 3 or 4 meters, which is also the highest place of the stone column. Here, some stone pillars are more than 6 meters above the sea surface, the highest ones can reach about 12 meters, and the solidified lava on them is about 28 centimeters thick. There are also stone pillars that are hidden underwater or as high as the sea.
Standing on some of the smaller stones, you can see that their cross-sections are very regular regular polygons. The shapes of the different pillars have figurative names, such as "Chimney Pipe Cap", "Big Wine Bowl" and "Lady's Fan".
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Legends and stories
Also known as Giant's Causeway or Giant's Head, the name originates from Irish folklore. One theory says that the Giant's Causeway was built by irish giant Finn McCool. He transported the pillars to the bottom of the sea one by one so that he could go to Scotland to engage his rival Finn Gale. When McCool was finished, he decided to take a break. Meanwhile, his rival Finn Gale decided to travel across Ireland to gauge his opponent, only to be frightened by the massive body of The Macule Giant. Especially after McCool's wife tells him that this is in fact the giant's child, Gayle worries about his life as he considers what kind of behemoth the father of the child should be. He hastily withdrew to Scotland and destroyed the causeway behind him to prevent Finn McCool from walking to Scotland. Now all remnants of the causeway are located on the antrim coast.
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In another theory, the Giant's Way was built by the commander of the Irish King's Army, the giant Finn McCool, to welcome his beloved girl. Legend has it that the commander of the Irish King's Army, The Giant Finn McCoulli, was so powerful that during a fight with the Scottish giants, he picked up a stone and threw it at the fleeing opponent. When the stones fell into the sea, it became today's giant island. Later, he fell in love with the giant girl who lived in the Inner Hebrides, and built such a causeway in order to bring her here.
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