• Fingals cave, Scotland. As a rule, caves are round in shape with round rocks but have you seen caves with symmetrical square caves?
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    • The heavenly abode of the isle of Staffa Fingals Cave
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  • Formation[edit]. View from the depths of the cave with the island of Iona visible in the background, 2008. Basalt columns inside Fingal's Cave, 2022.
  • ...Napoleon, and Banks, who promptly named the Scottish cave, which already had the name Uamh-Binn, after the Irish legend, calling it “Fingals Cave.”
  • We went to see the Puffins but highly enjoyed Fingal's cave while on the island. There can be a line to get into the cave as folks linger to take photos.
  • Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, known for its natural acoustics.
  • Fingals Cave is the most well-known Cave in Scotland. Its spectacular volcanic basalt columns have drawn tourists for over 250 years.
  • About Fingal's Cave. Within the dramatic cliffs of Staffa, one of the smallest islands in the Inner Hebrides, is an unusual basalt sea cave called Fingals Cave.
  • How Fingal's Cave Was Formed. Rising out of the Ocean this gargantuan Oceanic cave rises 72 feet (22m) out of the water, and the depth of the cave is...
  • Fingals Cave, most famous of the sea caves in the basalt southwest coast of Staffa, an island of the Inner Hebrides, western Scotland.
  • Situated on the tiny island of Staffa, this is a fantastic place to visit and if the weather is calm, then you can land and climb right inside Fingals Cave itself.
  • ...in an article in the World GSG Bulletin, Volume 3 Number 1, March 1994: "...Fingal's Cave has to be the most famous but least visited cave in the world!".
  • Fingals Cave has a height of about 22 m (72.18 ft.) and a depth of about 82 m (269.03 ft.). It has been speculated that Fingals Cave is over 50 million years old.