Giant's Causeway, Antrim, Northern Ireland Size:XXL: 100 x 100cm Plate 32 from volume I

Plate 32 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina

View from Greenwich Park

26th April 1965

Figure 2 Torpedo dipterygia [modern taxonomy Narke dipterygia

Elevation and plan

Giant's Causeway, Antrim, Northern Ireland Size:XXL: 100 x 100cm Plate 32 from volume IGiant's Causeway, Antrim, Northern Ireland. Legend has it that the Irish giant, Finn McCool, built the Giant's Causeway in order to cross the Irish Sea to fight his Scottish counterpart, Benandonner. The scientific explanation is that it was formed by a volcanic eruption 60 million years ago, with the mainly hexagonal basalt columns forming as the lava cooled. Stereoscopic card detail.