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Staffa National Nature Reserve
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The island is famous for its distinctive stepped basalt columns, created when the lava from volcanic eruptions cooled many millions of years ago. These columns form the cathedral-like structure of Fingal’s Cave, immortalised by Mendelssohn in his celebrated Hebrides overture. Other famous visitors to the island have included Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the artist J M W Turner, and poets and writers Keats, Wordsworth, Tennyson and Sir Walter Scott.
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- Visitors offer puffin protection
Puffins on Staffa, the National Trust for Scotland’s world-famous island nature reserve, are using visitors to protect them from attacks by aggressive gulls. more>
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