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Geopark

Border geopark

You wouldn't immediately associate County Fermanagh with a tropical sea teaming with exotic creatures - yet that's exactly what once covered the landscape.

But if you wanted to take a dip in those warm waters you'd have to have been around more than three hundred million years ago. Today a large area of the Fermanagh Cavan border has been designated the world's first international geopark - which it's hoped will boost tourism in the area around the Marble Arch Caves.

Our reporter in the West Julian Fowler spoke to Richard Watson of the Marble Arch Caves about the new designation.

You can see the full report from Monday's BBC Newsline by clicking on the link below

last updated: 19/01/2009 at 19:49
created: 16/01/2009

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