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A small uninhabited island famous for its caves and basaltic formations. Fingal’s Cave, is 227ft long and 66ft high. Smooth black columns of basalt rise from the sea like great organ pipes.
Its Gaelic name of An Uaamh Ehinn means ‘the musical cave’. Steamers go to Staffa from Oban, and landings can be made in calm weather. Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, part of a National Nature Reserve owned by the National Trust
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