🌿 Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast

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The Giant's Causeway is an area of approximately 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption, part of the North Atlantic Igneous Province active in the region during the Paleogene period. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles northeast of Bushmills.

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Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast is a natural World Heritage site in United Kingdom, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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