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Prehistoric finds on remote St Kilda's Boreray isle. Published. 17 June 2011. Share. close panel. Share page. Copy link. About sharing. Image caption, Boreray was the subject of a five-year survey ...

Hirta, the main island of St Kilda, was occupied until 1930 when the last islanders left after they asked to be evacuated because their way of life was no longer sustainable.

The remains of a permanent settlement which could date back to the Iron Age has been uncovered on a remote Scottish island, according to archaeologists. It was previously thought Boreray in the St ...

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.

For a long time, for instance, St Kilda was effectively part of a farm, along with another island, ... As part of the survey, archaeologists were able to make a rare visit to Boreray, ...

Read about photographer Jim Richardson's experience photographing Boreray Island from National Geographic. Photograph by Jim Richardson. ... [64 kilometers] beyond, is the St. Kilda island group, ...

Read more: St Kilda: Soay sheep fighting for survival in real-life ‘hunger games’ The vets have also questioned the work of the Edinburgh University-led St Kilda Soay Sheep Project. It has ...

St Kilda is arguably the most remote part of the British Isles on which anyone has ever lived. People eked out an existence there, based on trapping and eating sea birds, until 1930. Now the National ...

But he returned to St Kilda in 1964 and later told of his visit in a TV interview. “I was happy there,” he said. “Even when I visited, I didn’t feel I wanted to leave it again.