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Landing Place, Fingal's Cave, Staffa

DP 447419

Description Landing Place, Fingal's Cave, Staffa

Date 1/1/1898 to 31/12/1898

Collection Records of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN), Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number DP 447419

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content People alighting from a small rowing boat at the entrance to tall narrow cave formed in rock of hexagonal column formation. Path with handrail on left side of the cavern and people walking down to boat. Paddle steamer waiting out at sea and low island in distance. This is the largest of the caves on Staffa and has long been a tourist attraction and source of artistic inspiration as in Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture (1832). Geological formation caused by basalt slowly cooling in the magma chamber of a volcano, forming hexagonal columns in centre and homogeneous rock on the edges.

Accession Number 2024/57

External Reference 000-000-153-666-C, 000-000-153-666-R

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2770179

File Format (JPG) JPEG bitmap

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