Causeway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

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Description

The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986, and a national nature reserve in 1987 by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland. In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant's Causeway was named as the fourth greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven or eight sides. The tallest are about 12 metres (39 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 metres (92 ft) thick in places.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Causeway Coast Way
  • Ulster Way
  • Visitor's centre bypass

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Ballintoy Harbour Cafe
  • Bistro
  • Bushmills
  • Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
  • Causeway Hotel
  • Distillers Arms
  • Dunluce Castle
  • Dunseverick Castle
  • Dunseverick Falls
  • Former Youth Hostel
  • Fullerton Arms
  • Giant's Causeway
  • Giants Causeway Visitor Experience
  • Kinbane Castle
  • Old Bushmills Distillery
  • Public Toilets
  • River café
  • Royal Court Hotel
  • The Copper Kettle
  • The Red Door

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Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from Viewfinderpanoramas.org (Jonathan de Ferranti). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©code poet https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Causeway-code_poet-4.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)