Rare sheep on a remote Scottish island are being left to starve to death, it has been claimed. Soay sheep have roamed wild on ...

Sheep were first brought to St Kilda in prehistoric times, and the rare breed is named after the archipelago's small, uninhabited island of Soay. The animals are small and their fleeces have a wide ...

THE last surviving resident of abandoned Hebridean archipelago St Kilda has died aged 93. Rachel Johnson was born on the main island of Hirta and was eight-years-old when the last of the islanders ...

An abandoned Scottish archipelago with a dark history tied to the First World War has been named among the UK’s spookiest ...

It is well established that weakened immune systems in old age affect people's health and fitness, but a study suggests that it is also an issue for wild animals. Researchers studying wild Soay sheep ...

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This paper considers how the search for the sublime in nineteenth-century Scotland found its expression in the voyage to St Kilda, a remote island archipelago west of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. It ...

The remotest occupied island in the British Isles, the Outer Hebridean outlier Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago, has become symbolic of a utopia corrupted by modern, capitalist society. Originally a ...