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Fingal's Cave and Boat Cave, Staffa
Fingal's Cave and the smaller Boat Cave on Staffa in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.
The volcanic Staffa is famous for its spectacular hexagonal basalt columns. This cliff face is known as The Colonnade or The Great Face and it was these cliffs and caves that inspired Felix Mendelssohn's 'Hebrides Overture' which was premiered in London in 1832.
This cave became known as Fingal's Cave after the hero of a poem by the 18th century Scots poet, James Macpherson.
Author: Joan Martin
© Joan Martin (PHOTO NORTH). All Rights Reserved.
Photograph size: 22.9 Mpixels (65.6 MB uncompressed) - 5867x3911 pixels (19.6x13 in / 49.7x33.1 cm at 300 ppi)
Photograph keywords: basalt, basalt columns, Boat Cave, cliffs, Colonnade, Fingal's Cave, Fingals Cave, Great Face, Hebrides Overture, Inner Hebrides, James Macpherson., Mendelssohn, Scotland, Staffa, volcanic
Published in: Staffa
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