(the) Giant's Causeway

(the) Giant's Causeway
the Giant’s Causeway [the Giants Causeway]
a group of several thousand columns of rock on the north-east coast of Northern Ireland. Most of the columns have five or six flat sides. According to the ↑legend, it is one end of a road built by a ↑giant across the sea to the island of ↑Staffa, where there is a similar group of rocks. It is an important tourist attraction and was made a ↑World Heritage Site in 1986.

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