Causeway Tiia Valli It is located in County Antrim on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland about two miles 3 km north of the town of Bushmills Bushmills Distillery Antrim The ID: 530543
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Giant’s Causeway
Tiia ValliSlide2
It is located in County Antrim, on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland, about two miles (3 km) north of the town of Bushmills.
Bushmills
Distillery
AntrimSlide3
The Legend
The legend tells how the giant, Finn MacCool
laid the causeway to provide a path across the sea to his lady love, who lived on the island of Staffa in Scotland.Slide4
The Reality
The Causeway formed 60
m
illion
years ago as a result of volcanic eruptions. The lava cooled and hardened, it formed layers of basalt rock to become the Giant’s Causeway.
You can see approximately 40,000 columns of basalt rock today.Slide5
The OrganSlide6
The ChimneySlide7
The BootSlide8
Sourceshttp://www.asterix.studver.uu.nl/site/header/finnmaccool.JPG
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ts/2005/ts050626.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%27s_Causeway
http://www.giantscausewaycentre.com/content/?id=139&l1id=64http://www.giantscausewaycentre.com/content/?id=140&l1id=68
Gerard-Sharp, L; Perry, T. 2008
Eyewitness Travel: Ireland
.
Dorling
Kindersley
, London. (
pp
262-263)
Photos
from
private
collection
.Slide9
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