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Giant’s Causeway: a walk through myth and stone

Along the rugged coast of County Antrim, the Giant’s Causeway rises like a puzzle from the sea—40,000 interlocking basalt columns shaped by volcanic fury and wrapped in legend. Whether you come for ...
Gizmodo

Stop Shoving Coins Into the Giant’s Causeway

Almost 60 million years ago, a series of natural events—including volcanic eruptions, erosion, glacial movement, and sea level rise—created Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway: a coastal area made of ...
CNN

Heritage body begs tourists to stop jamming coins into Giant’s Causeway

Visitors to the Giant’s Causeway, the world-famous tourist attraction in Northern Ireland, are being urged not to indulge in the popular ritual of wedging coins in between the site’s iconic stones. UK ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Tourists Are Stuffing Coins Into the Cracks of the Giant’s Causeway, Damaging the Iconic Site in Northern Ireland

Many of the coins are from the United Kingom, but some are from as far away as the United States and Asia. National Trust via Facebook Small coins are causing giant problems at one of Northern Ireland ...
WFMZ-TV

Tourist coins pose giant problem at N. Ireland's famous causeway site

Visitors have been leaving coins in cracks at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland Legend has it the causeway was formed by Irish giant Finn McCool Coins rapidly corrode and expand, causing the ...