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 ...

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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 est inhabité depuis 1930, ... Dun, Soay y Boreray, se halla frente a las costas de las Hébridas y posee algunos de los más altos acantilados de Europa, donde viven inmensas colonias de ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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.