We know now the true, yet still amazing, reason for the Giant’s Causeway’s existence and how the 40,000 interlocking basalt columns perfectly shaped into hexagons were created through volcanic ...

I'm in Northern Ireland, at a place called the Giant's Causeway. There are about 40,000 of these columns made of a really hard rock called Basalt, all fitting together like an enormous puzzle.

the Giant’s Causeway was actually created by volcanic activity during the Paleocene Epoch, around 60 million years ago.

The £18.5m visitor centre opened in 2012 and was inspired by the Causeway's 40,000 hexagonal basalt stones. In 1986, Unesco declared the Giant's Causeway to be a World Heritage Site. Mr McCall ...

When threatened from across the sea by another giant called Benandonner, Finn fought back by throwing basalt rocks into the sea to create stepping stones, and marched over to Scotland to tell ...

But how much does it cost to walk the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim? It has always been free, but old National Trust signs were said to be misleading people into thinking they have to pay to ...