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
Cocoons of glistening ice in Vatnajökull glacier, Iceland; geometric Fingal’s Cave in Scotland; echoey mouths of darkness in Mexico’s cenotes.
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
His impressions have been preserved in the Overture to "Fingal's Cave," while from the whole trip he gained inspiration for the Scottish Symphony.
From The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians by Brower, Harriette
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