A SMALL island in Scotland has become a ghost town after it was abandoned by residents more than 90 years ago. Residents of the largest island in the St Kilda archipelago were evacuated from their ...
Sheep were first brought to St Kilda in prehistoric times, and the rare breed is named after the archipelago's small, ...
Hirta, Soay, Boreray and Dun… These are the four main islands in the remote North Atlantic that form the awe-inspiring archipelago of St Kilda. Remnants of the rim of an ancient volcano, millennia of ...
IN 605,000 seconds, give or take a few thousand - a week in old money - I will be quitting this overpopulated, chancer-ridden island for its polar opposite, a largely unpopulated rock some 40 miles ...
Rare sheep on a remote Scottish island are being left to starve to death, it has been claimed. Soay sheep have roamed wild on ...
Experts working on "the largest archaeological excavation" of Hirta, part of the St Kilda archipelago, have discovered an Iron Age settlement. The island, west of north Scotland, was home to an ...
Off the coast of Scotland lies an abandoned island, known for its sheer cliff faces, rugged terrain - and the fact that every person living there asked to be evacuated nearly a century ago. Hirta, the ...
Scotland's remote St Kilda archipelago was inhabited as long as 2,000 years ago, according to archaeologists. Pieces of Iron Age pottery were uncovered on the main island of Hirta in the largest ...
So this was Calum Mor's House, the oldest dwelling on the Scottish island of Hirta. According to legend, young Calum had built it in a single day to prove his worth: He had been passed over for the ...
St Kilda. Specifically, Hirta, as it’s actually an archipelago, but is commonly referred to, collectively, as St Kilda. It’s the outermost isle of the Outer Hebrides and is set deep in the north ...