Whitepark Bay & Rathlin Island, Co. Antrim - nice Plastichrome postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  Whitepark Bay and Rathlin Island, Co. Antrim [Northern Ireland]
• Publisher: Plastichrome (Colourpicture Publishers) Colour by LGM Symes / No. NI 12
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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White Park Bay (also spelled Whitepark Bay) is a bay and three-mile long beach located near Ballycastle, County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, along the Giant’s Causeway Coastal Route.^[1] Sheep and cattle graze the hills and beach along the bay, which has been under the care of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty since 1938.^[2] It is situated in the townland of White Park.^[3] The bay is also home to the Whitepark Bay Youth Hostel.

A cairn above the beach is designated as a Scheduled Historic Monument at grid ref: D0225 4403.^[4]

Whitepark Bay also hosts a great display of Ireland's geological past. The cliffs on both West and East sides of the bay are composed of Upper Cretaceous (Santonian- lower Maastrichtian) chalk. The chalk itself is a form of limestone composed almost entirely of Calcium Carbonate. This chalk formed Late during the Cretaceous period, a time when many marine transgressions took place, and much of the continents were under water- as was Ireland. In relation to the British Isles as a whole, it's thought that, at the ocean's highest, only a few mountain peaks of Northern Scotland would have stood out of the water. The cliffs at White Park Bay are rich in fragments of the belemnite, Belemnitella mucronata. Belemnitella was one of the latest surviving Belemnites. Belemnites, an important and distinctive fossil important for zonation and biostratigraphy of Mesozoic marine deposits, were related to today's modern Coleoid Cephalopods, looked superficially similar to squid, and possessed hundreds of hooks on each of their arms which they used presumably to catch their prey of other small marine creatures.

Rathlin Island (from Irish: Reachlainn ^[2]) is an island and civil parish off the coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and the northernmost point of Northern Ireland.

Rathlin is the only inhabited offshore island of Northern Ireland, with a steadily growing population of approximately 150 people, and is the most northerly inhabited island off the coast of the island of Ireland. The reverse L-shaped Rathlin Island is 4 miles (6 km) from east to west, and 2.5 miles (4 km) from north to south.

The highest point on the island is Slieveard, 134 metres (440 feet) above sea level. Rathlin is 15.5 miles (25 km) from the Mull of Kintyre, the southern tip of Scotland's Kintyre peninsula. It is part of the Causeway Coast and Glens council area, and is represented by the Rathlin Development & Community Association.^[3]

Rathlin is part of the traditional barony Cary (around the town of Ballycastle), and of current district Moyle. The island constitutes a civil parish and is subdivided into 22 townlands: