Fingal surprised beautiful caves
Fingal Cave Beach, on the island of Staffa in Scotland are not inhabited. For ancient Celtic peoples, it is an important monument of legend.
Legendary Ireland explained that the formation of Fingal's Cave is similar to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. Net basalt columns allegedly ruins of debris from a bridge, the giant Fiom Cumhaill mac in Irish building as the place to fight the Scottish giant Benandonner. Of course, according to geologists, Fingal's Cave was formed by molten lava associated with erosion.
Fingal Cave is a geological formation process unlike any other cave in the world. Fingal is formed entirely of hexagonal basalt columns similar to the floor structure of the Giants in Northern Ireland. Comparing the two structures, one finds that they have a similar geological processes took place there 60 million years. Both are derived from the old casting molten lava, then the surface of the enormous volume of lava is cooled by sea water drying and shrinks and then cracked into long and each block in the model of the upper continental feeling .
Height of mineral basalt column base in Fingal cave revealed that measured 72 m, while the beach is 700 meters underground. The cave had a large entrance arch. Naturally curved dome size like the dome of a church. At first, people thought Fingal cave created by human hands.
Fingal cave attention for customers of Bank naturalist Joseph discovered in 1772. This natural cave is named after the hero Fingal epic work of Scotland in the 18th century. It is also known cave of Fingal with a different name is that "Uamh-Binn" means "Cave tunes", emitting strange sounds in languages like prayer blow to the church. But in fact the noise is generated by the echo of the waves hitting rocky rapids.
Fingal cave attracts many tourists visiting, including artists such as novelist Sir Walter Scott, who described Fingal's Cave in his work as "one of the most special places I've ever seen, it is beyond my imagination. Fingal's Cave covers all high basalt pillars resemble the roof of the church is located in the heart of the rock ... ".
In addition, there is the romantic composer visited the cave means in 1829 and written work of Felix Mendelssohn Hebriden Die "Fingal's Cave Overture" inspired by the strange echoes in the cave. He is also the artist Matthew Barney used Fingal's Cave combination Causeway in Northern Ireland giant as a backdrop for the film Cremaster 3. In 2008, Richard Ashrowan cameraman spent a few days filming Fingal's Cave inside for an exhibition at the Foksal Gallery in Poland.
Fingal Caves have a magical attraction, so that more and more companies of island tourism, visits to caves are open each year. The peak tourist season is from April to September.
To access the caves, visitors to the island of Staffa. Large tour boats stop at the island, can not live in the cave of Fingal. So visitors are free to wander around the island and explore the cave with his feet.
Some pictures on Fingal's Cave:
Fingal Cave Beach, on the island of Staffa in Scotland are not inhabited. For ancient Celtic peoples, it is an important monument of legend.
Legendary Ireland explained that the formation of Fingal's Cave is similar to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. Net basalt columns allegedly ruins of debris from a bridge, the giant Fiom Cumhaill mac in Irish building as the place to fight the Scottish giant Benandonner. Of course, according to geologists, Fingal's Cave was formed by molten lava associated with erosion.
Fingal Cave is a geological formation process unlike any other cave in the world. Fingal is formed entirely of hexagonal basalt columns similar to the floor structure of the Giants in Northern Ireland. Comparing the two structures, one finds that they have a similar geological processes took place there 60 million years. Both are derived from the old casting molten lava, then the surface of the enormous volume of lava is cooled by sea water drying and shrinks and then cracked into long and each block in the model of the upper continental feeling .
Height of mineral basalt column base in Fingal cave revealed that measured 72 m, while the beach is 700 meters underground. The cave had a large entrance arch. Naturally curved dome size like the dome of a church. At first, people thought Fingal cave created by human hands.
Fingal cave attention for customers of Bank naturalist Joseph discovered in 1772. This natural cave is named after the hero Fingal epic work of Scotland in the 18th century. It is also known cave of Fingal with a different name is that "Uamh-Binn" means "Cave tunes", emitting strange sounds in languages like prayer blow to the church. But in fact the noise is generated by the echo of the waves hitting rocky rapids.
Fingal cave attracts many tourists visiting, including artists such as novelist Sir Walter Scott, who described Fingal's Cave in his work as "one of the most special places I've ever seen, it is beyond my imagination. Fingal's Cave covers all high basalt pillars resemble the roof of the church is located in the heart of the rock ... ".
In addition, there is the romantic composer visited the cave means in 1829 and written work of Felix Mendelssohn Hebriden Die "Fingal's Cave Overture" inspired by the strange echoes in the cave. He is also the artist Matthew Barney used Fingal's Cave combination Causeway in Northern Ireland giant as a backdrop for the film Cremaster 3. In 2008, Richard Ashrowan cameraman spent a few days filming Fingal's Cave inside for an exhibition at the Foksal Gallery in Poland.
Fingal Caves have a magical attraction, so that more and more companies of island tourism, visits to caves are open each year. The peak tourist season is from April to September.
To access the caves, visitors to the island of Staffa. Large tour boats stop at the island, can not live in the cave of Fingal. So visitors are free to wander around the island and explore the cave with his feet.
Some pictures on Fingal's Cave:
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