White Park Bay

[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 (likely from the Irish An Pháirc),[3] which is 170 acres in area and located in the civil parish of Ballintoy.

[6] In terms of evidence of the area's geological past, the cliffs on both the west and east sides of Whitepark Bay are composed of Upper Cretaceous (Santonian- lower Maastrichtian) chalk.

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.

Belemnites, a 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.