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    The Giant's Causeway (Irish: Clochán an Aifir) is an area of approximately 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure...
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    The Giant's Causeway Tramway, operated by the Giant's Causeway, Portrush and Bush Valley Railway & Tramway Company Ltd, was a pioneering 3 ft (914 mm)...
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  • Giant's Causeway (14 February 1997 – 16 April 2018) was an American-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse who won five Group One races in Great Britain...
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  • Northern Ireland. Giant's Causeway may also refer to: Giant's Causeway (horse), Europe's Horse of the Year in 2000 Giant's Causeway, New South Wales, stretch...
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    The Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway (GC&BR) is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway operating between the Giant's Causeway and Bushmills...
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    National Trust > Giant's Causeway. Accessed 29 December 2013. Northern Ireland Tourist Board > Causeway Coast & Glens > The Giant's Causeway > Folklore and...
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    Point. There is also every suggestion that Dixon made reference to the Giant's Causeway. It is highly probable that "Fingal Head" was named after Fingal's...
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    Golf Club (opened 1888), the nearby Giant's Causeway was a popular tourist destination, with the Giant's Causeway Tramway – at the time, one of the world's...
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    produces Irish whiskey, and is near the Giant's Causeway. Bushmills is labelled as Super Data Zone Causeway_C by Northern Ireland Statistics and Research...
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    Ireland. The Glens of Antrim offer isolated rugged landscapes, the Giant's Causeway is a unique landscape and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bushmills produces...
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    within a Paleocene lava flow and is similar in structure to both the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and Ulva. In these locations, cooling on the upper...
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  • The Giant's Causeway Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares, age three and older, over a distance of 5+1⁄2 furlongs...
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    station the station terminal at the north of the branch line. The Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway is a heritage railway and major tourist attraction...
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  • to be designed by Hipgnosis and was based on a photograph taken at Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. Although critical response was mixed, Houses of...
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    geomythologies. For example, Fionn mac Cumhaill is said to have built the Giant's Causeway on the island of Ireland. Per a 1965 examination in an American studies...
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  • Dovedale, The Needles and the Jurassic Coast), one in Northern Ireland (Giant's Causeway), one in Scotland (Loch Coruisk & The Cuillins) and one in Wales (Pistyll...
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    Churchill (2017), Paddington (2023) Irish Champion Stakes – (12) – Giant's Causeway (2000), High Chaparral (2003), Oratorio (2005), Dylan Thomas (2006...
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    Shuffle (1987), Cape of Good Hope (2005) International Stakes – (3) – Giant's Causeway (2000), Electrocutionist (2005), Sea the Stars (2009) July Cup – (2)...
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    sites in the UK to be inscribed on the World Heritage List were Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast; Durham Castle and Cathedral; Ironbridge Gorge; Studley...
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    vertex arrangement of the regular hexagon: From bees' honeycombs to the Giant's Causeway, hexagonal patterns are prevalent in nature due to their efficiency...
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    worked as a boatman and tour guide at the nearby Giant's Causeway. Educated at the Giant's Causeway National School, Quigg worked on the Macnaghten estate...
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  • mac Cumhaill, also known as Finn MacCool, have it that he built the Giant's Causeway as stepping-stones to Scotland, so as not to get his feet wet, and...
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    Northern Ireland. It is in County Antrim, near the Giant's Causeway, which lies between Causeway Head and Benbane Head. The nearest settlements are Bushmills...
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  • the great Giant's Causeway (by Storm Cat), the European Horse of the Year for 2000. She also produced Freud, a full brother to Giant's Causeway who stands...
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    Earth. Perhaps the most famous basalt lava flow in the world is the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, in which the vertical joints form polygonal columns...
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    seven members to Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council and contains the wards of Atlantic, Dervock, Dundoonan, Giant's Causeway, Hopefield, Portrush...
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    Large masses must cool slowly to form a polygonal joint pattern, as here at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland...
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    Railway From Over the Tunnel, Taken on the Opening Day, May 3, 1830 The Giant's Causeway Phenakistiscope discs Many of his subjects were engraved and published...
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    the Giant's Causeway. In the 2011 census, Portballintrae had a population of 601, a decline of 18% compared to 2001. It lies within the Causeway Coast...
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    Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland The Emeishan Traps in China Giant's Causeway in Ireland Organ Pipes National Park in Australia The Paraná and Etendeka...
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