Fingal's Cave
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a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
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(italics) an overture, opus 26, composed in 1832 by Felix Mendelssohn.
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Boat excursions to Staffa, a nearby island, offer the geological marvel Fingal’s Cave and puffin sightings.
From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2021
The hexagonal basalt pillars of Fingal’s Cave in the Inner Hebrides have inspired creatives for centuries.
From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2019
Alex Guttenplan Basalt forms the distinctive columnar strata of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland and the similar structures found on which island in the Inner Hebrides, the location of Fingal's Cave?
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2010
He became a musical Marco Polo who brought back from Scotland a Scotch Symphony, from the Hebrides Fingal's Cave, from Italy an Italian Symphony.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had heard of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, and Fingal's Cave in Staffa, one of the Hebrides; but I had never yet seen a basaltic formation.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules
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