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Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway
By Nick on July 14, 2008
A lesser known wonder of the world is Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway, an area of around 40,000 interlocking basalt columns. It looks anything but natural, but was apparently the result of a volcanic eruption in ancient times. Here’s an overhead shot of the Causeway Coast from Google Earth.
The Giant’s Causeway itself looks like this:
Pretty amazing, don’t you think? The site was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986, but that doesn’t stop you from actually climbing over the columns, some as high as 12 meters!
More info…
- Giant’s Causeway on Wikipedia
- Giant’s Causeway on Google Maps
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Mark Ramsay, globetrotting from an armchair in England.
1:31 pm on July 14th, 2008
Excellent Nick, love the pictures, I saw a documentary about the Giant Causeway in northern ireland and it was really interesting and so is your piece. That is am amazing picture well done bro.
1:32 pm on July 14th, 2008
May be one day we should both climb and see how fast we get to the top.
6:34 pm on July 14th, 2008
I love your write up as The Giant’s Causeway was one of the subjects covered in Geography with my class when I was teaching. We had someone come in and give us a talk about it and about the two giants story that goes with it.
2:55 pm on July 19th, 2008
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t this on a Led Zeppelin album cover? Absolutely brilliant.
I love the site, guys!
3:06 pm on July 19th, 2008
Ah, Jordan! You tracked me over here for a virtual trip to Northern Ireland. Thanks for coming.
You’re right, Giant’s Causeway is on the cover of “Houses Of The Holy“. I think it looks a bit freaky, but it was nominated for a Grammy, so there you go!
6:08 pm on November 24th, 2008
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6:12 pm on November 24th, 2008
Thanks Jordan I am glad you like this site it gives Me and my brother alot in doing these posts and we thankyou for visiting and hope you keep popping back.