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Comment by David McIlveen Wright on September 28, 2010 at 1:57am

Jarno, these basalt columns formed through accelerated cooling of lava causing rapid crystallisation as it hit the waters of the ocean a few years ago ... well, around 65 million years ago! There are supposed to be around 40,000 of these, mostly hexagonal, basalt columns in the area ..

Comment by David McIlveen Wright on September 28, 2010 at 5:20pm

thanks!
it really is a very interesting place to visit ... tourists have been coming here since the mid 19th century ... the first railway powered by hydro-electricity was here ... a ship from the Spanish Armada foundered here ... there's a 200m long cave in the next headland that you can enter from the next bay (Portcoon) ... and the scenery is very beautiful too ...

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