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Giant's Causeway

Hexagonal basalt columns stretch towards the ocean at the Giant's Causeway, a striking coastal landscape in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

A stretch of coastline in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where roughly forty thousand interlocking basalt columns, most of them hexagonal, step down into the sea. They formed about sixty million years ago when a thick lava flow cooled and contracted, fracturing along lines that minimised surface energy — the same hexagonal solution bees converge on in wax. UNESCO listed the site in 1986.

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