Title

The Giant's Causeway, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 1924-1926. Artist: Unknown

Caption

The Giant's Causeway, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 1924-1926. Legend has it that the Irish giant, Finn McCool, built the Giant's Causeway in order to cross the Irish sea to fight his Scottish counterpart, Benandonner. The scientific explanation is that it was formed by a volcanic eruption 60 million years ago, with the mainly hexagonal basalt columns forming as the lava cooled. A print from Hutchinson's Britain Beautiful, edited by Walter Hutchinson, volume I, 1924-1926.
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Date

1924

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C45_069

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,1Mb) / 17,7in x 11,0in / 5304 x 3296 (300dpi)

Keywords

coast rocks rock science geology rock formation geography volcanic column pillar pillars Northern Ireland century giants causeway legend mythology basalt twenties natural phenomena B&W MONOCHROME hexagonal Giant's Causeway black & white black and white B W legendary 1920s County Antrim 20th century The Print Collector geographical feature TGN photograph Unknown photograph