DESTINATION > FINGALs CAVE ~ SCOTLAND ... A well-known wonder of the ancient Irish and Scottish celtic people Where a large number of tourists visits Fingals Cave Overture every year to explore the untouched beauty of sea caves. =========================== FINGALs CAVE ... Fingals 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 became known as Fingals Cave after the eponymous hero of an epic poem by 18th-century Scots poet-historian James Macpherson. It is formed entirely from hexagonally jointed basalt columns within a Paleocene lava flow, similar in structure to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland and those of nearby Ulva. In all these cases, cooling on the upper and lower surfaces of the solidified lava resulted in contraction and fracturing, starting in a blocky tetragonal pattern and transitioning to a regular hexagonal fracture pattern with fractures perpendicular to the cooling surfaces. As cooling continued these cracks gradually extended toward the centre of the flow, forming the long hexagonal columns we see in the wave-eroded cross-section today. Similar hexagonal fracture patterns are found in desiccation cracks in mud where contraction is due to loss of water instead of cooling. Its size and naturally arched roof, and the eerie sounds produced by the echoes of waves, give it the atmosphere of a natural cathedral. The caves Gaelic name, An Uaimh Bhinn, means the melodious cave. MORE > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingals_Cave (TQ) ======================================= Behind the Name: Fingal behindthename/php/view.php?name=fingal Staffa (Fingals Cave) and the Treshnish Islands - The Internet Guide to Scotland scotland-inverness.co.uk/staffa.htm For the concert overture of the same name by Mendelssohn ... See The Hebrides (overture). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hebrides_(overture) MUSIC > Felix Mendelssohn : The Hebrides (Fingals Cave) - Overture youtu.be/a3MiETaBSnc ======================================= Pics Below > Basalt columns inside Fingals Cave, a well known wonder Entrance to Fingals Cave, Staffa ... Credit Photo by Hartmut Josi Bennöhr - 2004 (TQ) Internal view of Fingals Cave on the island of Staffa ... With a view across the open sea to the island of Iona, Both are islands of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Photo taken May 2008. (TQ) Staffa Island and Fingals Cave from out & afar ... via second globe (TQ) Map showing where Staffa Island is situated in Scotland ... via kathy goes to bristol blogspot (TQ)
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