1. What is the Giant's Causeway?
2. Why can't people walk to Scotland using the Giant's Causeway?
3. Who built it and why?
4. Who saved Finn from Benandonner and how?
5. How was the Giant's Causeway created according to scientists?

The Giant’s Causeway is a natural area on the coast of Northern Ireland. It consists of thousands of tall basalt columns, many of them with six sides.

People cannot walk to Scotland because the causeway does not form a complete dry bridge: most of it is under the sea.

According to an Irish legend, the giant Finn McCool built it to cross the sea and fight the Scottish giant Benandonner.

Finn’s wife, Oonagh, saved him. She dressed Finn as a huge baby. Benandonner saw the “baby”, imagined how enormous Finn’s father must be, became frightened and ran back to Scotland.

Scientists explain that the Giant’s Causeway formed when molten rock cooled after volcanic activity. As the basalt cooled and shrank, it cracked into columns.