The beach’s black sand is typical of Iceland’s volcanic landscape created from basalt lava that has been ground down over thousands of years. This gives Diamond Beach its incredible look.

However, the star attraction has to be Bamburgh's beach, having been celebrated as the UK's top beach for the ... majestically on a vast 180-foot high basalt outcrop, offering sweeping coastal ...

It is the only beach resort in the UK with three piers ... The Giant’s Causeway is an area of column-like basalt rocks, which was created in a volcanic eruption around 60 million years ago.