It was previously thought Boreray in the St Kilda archipelago was only visited by islanders to hunt seabirds and gather wool from sheep.

Boreray was the subject of a five-year survey project The remains of a permanent settlement which could date back to the Iron Age has been uncovered on a remote Scottish island, according to ...

Scouring the horizon, again and again, concentrating, eyes aching, scarcely allowing lids to blink. Where was St Kilda? And then an unashamedly excited outburst, a land ahoy moment: ‘There it is, ...

It had been thought that no people had ever lived on the St Kilda island of Boreray, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides in the Atlantic Ocean.

St Kilda is a jagged volcanic archipelago made up of the islands of Hirta, Dun, Soay and Boreray, located 40 miles from South Uist – the nearest land.

A new book aims to overturn the popular perception of St Kilda as a community isolated from the rest of the world.

No wonder St. Kilda is a World Heritage site. The sheer wildness of the place, the profusion of seabirds, and its unrelenting beauty would qualify the place easily. But added to that is the ...

St Kilda’s wild sheep have been left to their own devices for more than a century, ever since the archipelago’s last families were driven away when conditions became too challenging to stay.

BBC Scotland's Huw Williams visits the remote islands of St Kilda to learn more about the "mystical" destination.

Ninety years ago, the last St Kilda islanders said their final farewells and embarked on a new life.