Giant's Causeway
The Giant's Causeway is a spectacular series of rock formations on the north coast of Northern Ireland. The main site stretches for 2-3 miles, with some 40,000 basalt columns rising out of the sea.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Lindy Buckley, CC BY 2.0.
Localities in the Area
Bushmills
Photo: Ryan kirk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bushmills is a village historically in County Antrim, near the coast 60 miles north of Belfast.
Portballintrae
Photo: Des Colhoun, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portballintrae is a small seaside village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Portballintrae is situated 3½ km southwest of Giant's Causeway.
Giant's Causeway
- Type: Rock
- Description: rock formation on the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland
- Categories: landform, tourist attraction, columnar basalt and tourism
- Location: Causeway Coast and Glens, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.2408° or 55° 14' 27" northLongitude
-6.5116° or 6° 30' 42" westElevation
5 metres (16 feet)Operator
National TrustOpen Location Code
9C7M6FRQ+89OpenStreetMap ID
way 177043247OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=bare_rockOpenStreetMap Feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
7521399Wikidata ID
Q106187Giant's Causeway Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Giant's Causeway
- Arabic: Giant's Causeway
- Arabic: ممر العمالقة
- Armenian: Հսկաների ճանապարհ
- Armenian: Հսկաների սալարկուղի
- Asturian: Calzada del Xigante
- Azerbaijani: Kozuay sahili
- Azerbaijani: Nəhənglər keçidi
- Bashkir: Гиганттар юлы
- Basque: Erraldoien Galtzada
- Basque: Giant's Causeway
- Basque: The Giant's Causeway
- Belarusian: Дарога гігантаў
- Belarusian: Сьцяжына гігантаў
- Bengali: জায়ান্ট কজওয়ে
- Breton: Chaoser ar Ramzed
- Bulgarian: Пътят на великаните
- Burmese: ဂျိုင်းယင့်၏ ရေကျော်လမ်း
- Catalan: Calçada del Gegant
- Catalan: Calçada dels Gegants
- Cebuano: Giants Causeway
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵙⴰⴽⴽⴰ ⴻⵏ ⵢ'ⵇⴰⵎⵇⴰⵎⴻⵏ
- Chinese: 巨人之路
- Chinese: 巨人堤道
- Chinese: 賈恩茨考斯韋海岸
- Chinese: 賈恩茨考斯韋角
- Chinese: 贾恩茨考斯韦海岸
- Croatian: Giant's Causeway
- Croatian: Prolaz divova
- Czech: Clochán an Aifir
- Czech: Giant's Causeway
- Czech: Obrovy schody
- Czech: Obrův chodník
- Danish: Giant's Causeway
- Danish: Giants Causeway
- Dutch: Causeway Coast
- Dutch: Giant's Causeway
- Dutch: Giants Causeway
- English: Giants' Causeway
- English: Giants Causeway
- English: Gyants Causey
- English: Gyants Cawsway
- Finnish: Giant's Causeway
- Finnish: Giant’s Causeway
- French: Chaussee des Geants
- French: Chaussée des Géants
- French: Chaussée des Géants et sa côte
- French: Chausée des Géants
- Friulian: Pedrât dal Zigant
- Galician: Calzada do Xigante
- Georgian: გიგანტების გზა
- German: Giant's Causeway
- German: Giants Causeway
- German: Giant’s Causeway
- Hebrew: מסילת הענק
- Hebrew: סוללת הענק
- Hindi: दैत्य सेतुक
- Hungarian: Az óriás útja
- Ido: Choseo di Giganti
- Indonesian: Giant's Causeway
- Irish: Clochán an Aifir
- Irish: Clochán na bhFomhórach
- Irish: Clochán na bhFomórach
- Irish: Clochán na bhFómharach
- Italian: Giant's Causeway
- Italian: Selciato del gigante
- Italian: Sentiero del gigante
- Japanese: コーズウェー海岸
- Japanese: ジャイアンツ・コーズウェー
- Japanese: ジャイアンツ・コーズウェーとコーズウェー海岸
- Korean: 자이언트 코즈웨이
- Latvian: Milža dambis
- Lithuanian: Milžinų grindinys
- Lithuanian: Milžinų kelias
- Low German: Giant's Causeway
- Low German: Giant’s Causeway
- Luxembourgish: Giant's Causeway
- Malay: Giant's Causeway
- Maltese: Giant's Causeway
- Maltese: Mogħdija tal-Ġgant
- Narom: Pont es Giants
- Narom: Pont ès Giants
- Norwegian: Giant’s Causeway
- Norwegian Bokmål: Giant's Causeway
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Giant's Causeway
- Occitan (post 1500): Cauçada dei Gigants
- Panjabi: ਜਾਇੰਟ ਕੌਜ਼ਵੇ
- Persian: گذرگاه ساحلی جاینت
- Polish: Droga Olbrzymów
- Polish: Gościniec Giganta
- Polish: Grobla Giganta
- Polish: Grobla Olbrzyma
- Polish: Grobla Olbrzymów
- Polish: Ścieżka gigantów
- Portuguese: A Calçada para Gigantes
- Portuguese: Calçada dos Gigantes
- Portuguese: Calçada dos Gigantes e sua Costa
- Portuguese: Calçada para Gigantes
- Romanian: Giant's Causeway
- Russian: Дорога Гигантов
- Russian: Дорога гигантов
- Russian: Мостовая гиганта
- Russian: Мостовая гигантов
- Russian: Тропа Великана
- Serbian: Пролаз дивова
- Serbo-Croatian: Prolaz divova
- Slovak: Giant’s Causeway
- Slovenian: Velikanova pot
- Spanish: Calzada del Gigante
- Spanish: Calzada de los Gigantes
- Spanish: Calzada y Costa del Gigante
- Spanish: Giant's Causeway
- Spanish: The Giant's Causeway
- Swedish: Giant's Causeway
- Swedish: Giant's Causeway och Causeway Coast
- Swedish: Giants Causeway
- Tamil: இராட்சசப் படுகை
- Thai: ไจอันตส์คอสเวย์
- Turkish: Devler Kaldırımı
- Ukrainian: Дорога Гігантів
- Venetian: Giant's causeway
- Venetian: Salizzada del Zigante
- Venetian: Sałisada del Zigante
- Vietnamese: Giant's Causeway
- Waray (Philippines): Giant's Causeway
- Welsh: Sarn y Cawr
- Western Panjabi: جائینٹ کازوے
- Wu Chinese: 巨人堤道
- Yue Chinese: 巨人堤道
Other Places Named Giant's Causeway
Localities in the Area
- Aird SnoutLocality
- Weir's StoutLocality
- The AmphitheatreLocality
- Causeway HeadLocality
- Runkerry HeadLocality
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Giant's Causeway. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.