Cape Stolbchaty Explained

Cape Stolbchaty
Location:Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia
Coordinates:44.025°N 145.6758°W

Cape Stolbchaty (Russian: links=no|мыс Столбчатый|p=mɨs ˈstoɫpt͡ɕɪtɨj|t=Cape Columnar) is a geographic cape on the west shore of Kunashir Island, the southernmost of the Kuril Islands, in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is famous for its columnar basalt formations, which are strikingly similar to the Giant's Causeway in County Antrim in Northern Ireland.[1] [2]

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  1. http://www.geomem.ru/confer_report.php?idr=16 Объекты геологического наследия острова Кунашир (Курильская вулканическая гряда) как основа для развития геологического туризма
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20110106163803/http://ruschudo.ru/miracles/347/ «Мыс Столбчатый»