Cliffs Above Fingal's Cave, Staffa Scotland

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Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, part of a National Nature Reserve owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It is formed entirely from hexagonally jointed basalt columns, similar in structure to (and part of the same ancient lava flow as) the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and those of nearby Ulva. In both cases, the cooling surface of the mass of hot lava cracked in a hexagonal pattern in a similar way to drying mud…

J. M. W. Turner, Staffa, Fingal’s Cave (detail), 1832 Turner quoted on his death bed: 'The sun is God'

The way, along the cliff, to Fingal's Cave on the uninhabited Isle of Staffa, Inner Hebrides (Scotland). The Isle of Staffa (from the Old Norse for stave or pillar island) is a small and uninhabited of the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Entirely of volcanic origin, the isle consists of a basement of tuff, underneath colonnades of a black fine-grained Tertiary basalt, overlying which is a third layer of basaltic lava lacking a crystalline structure. By contrast, slow cooling of the second layer…

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Hex Columns of Fingal's Cave, Staffa Scotland

This journey goes coast to coast across Scotland. We start in Edinburgh and fly up the Forth River visiting historic landmarks, including its famous bridge....

Old photograph of Fingals Cave, Staffa, Scotland

Fingal's Cave Staffa Scotland - remember approaching from the sea on my first ever sailing trip aged 16 - i was the galley boy that day - broke off from making scones to pop up on deck to see the cave

Fingal's Cave. Staffa, Scotland.

Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Berlin Philharmonic, Wilhelm Furtwangler Recorded 1930

1910-again: “ Thomas Moran, Fingal’s Cave, Island of Staffa, Scotland c.1884-1885 ”

Fingal's cave