Boreray (Scottish Gaelic: Boraraigh; Scots: Boreray) is an uninhabited island in the St Kilda archipelago in the North Atlantic. Boreray lies about 66...
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Boreray may refer to: An island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland: Boreray, North Uist Boreray, St Kilda A domesticated animal: Boreray sheep This disambiguation...
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The Boreray, also known as the Boreray Blackface or Hebridean Blackface, is a breed of sheep originating on the St Kilda archipelago off the west coast...
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(2005) page 28. Macaulay, Kenneth (1764). The history of St. Kilda. pp. 53–58. "St Kilda, Boreray, Taigh Stallair". Canmore. Retrieved 24 March 2024. "Winter...
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The St Kilda field mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus hirtensis) is a subspecies of the wood mouse that is endemic to the Scottish archipelago of St Kilda, the...
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islet in the St Kilda archipelago, Scotland. The name is from Old Norse Sauðey, meaning "island of sheep". The island is part of the St Kilda World Heritage...
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List of sea stacks in Scotland (section St Kilda)
The highest stacks in Scotland are Stac an Armin and Stac Lee in the St Kilda archipelago and the Old Man of Hoy, Orkney. Some provide well known and...
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The Lost Songs of St Kilda is an album by James MacMillan and Trevor Morrison, released in 2016 by Decca Records. The album contains modern recordings...
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Cleit (category St Kilda, Scotland)
cleitean on Hirta and a further 170 on the other St Kilda-group islands. The outlying island of Boreray has the Cleitean MacPhàidein, a "cleit village"...
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St Kilda was continuously inhabited for two millennia or more, from the Bronze Age to the 20th century. However, little is known of the early history,...
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is a most unusual breed, subsisting largely on a diet of seaweed. The Boreray was in 2012 the only sheep breed listed by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust...
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this figure had declined to 5%. Other examples are Mingulay, Noss and the St Kilda archipelago, which were abandoned during the course of the 20th century...
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groupings of outlying islands involved. The most significant of these is the St Kilda archipelago which lies 64 kilometres (40 mi) west-northwest of North Uist...
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Soay sheep (category Fauna of St Kilda, Scotland)
also associated with St Kilda: the Boreray (from Boreray, another of the islands, and formerly also living on Hirta), and the "St Kilda", a former name for...
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often formerly known as "St Kilda" sheep, although unlike Soay and Boreray sheep they are probably not in fact from the St Kilda archipelago. Modern Hebrideans...
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seabird. A subspecies of Eurasian wren, the St Kilda wren Troglodytes troglodytes hirtensis, is unique to St Kilda. Salmon frequent several Lewis rivers after...
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2015. Retrieved 14 January 2011. Chevalier Paul. "An Essay on the Order of St. John (S.M.O.M.)". Caltrap's Corner. Archived from the original on 24 May...
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Norman Heathcote (category St Kilda, Scotland)
SMCJ (1901) maps of St Kilda (not to same scale) Hirta and Soay Boreray Heathcote, J Norman (February 1900). "A Map of St Kilda". Geographical Journal...
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livestock in the St Kilda archipelago were mixed to some extent with Scottish Blackface sheep in the late 19th century, and survive as the Boreray (the other...
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Stac Lee (category St Kilda, Scotland)
ascents in October 2015. St Kilda has the world's largest colony of northern gannet, with an estimated 60,000 breeding pairs on Boreray, Stac an Armin and Stac...
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including white and grey. Very rare. the Boreray – Survivors of the sheep kept by the crofters of the St Kilda archipelago off the west coast of Scotland...
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Stac an Armin (category St Kilda, Scotland)
400 metres (¼ mi) north of Boreray and near the 172-metre-high (564 ft) Stac Lee. Stac an Armin is separated from Boreray by a channel "so littered with...
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generally derived from Statoids.com. Chevalier Paul. "An Essay on the Order of St. John (S.M.O.M.)". Caltrap's Corner. Archived from the original on 24 May...
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generally derived from Statoids.com. Chevalier Paul. "An Essay on the Order of St. John (S.M.O.M.)". Caltrap's Corner. Archived from the original on 24 May...
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Boreray (Scottish Gaelic: Boraraigh) is an island with a single croft, lying 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland...
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History of the Outer Hebrides (section St Kilda)
of stones fixed perpendicularly in the ground, by the Stallir House on Boreray. Visiting ships in the 18th century brought cholera and smallpox and in...
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28; -02.26 SO8265 Boreray (North Uist) Western Isles 57°43′N 7°17′W / 57.71°N 07.29°W / 57.71; -07.29 NF849812 Boreray (St Kilda) Western Isles 57°52′N...
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Volagir Baleshare and Kirkibost Balranald Bog and Loch nam Feithean Berneray Boreray Bornish and Ormiclate Machairs Eoligarry Howmore Estuary, Lochs Roag and...
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Hebrides that are not part of the archipelago itself. These include the St Kilda group, which are quite distinct geologically and no longer inhabited, Sula...
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, a native of St Kilda, and Margaret MacLean (1737-1789), daughter of Rev. Archibald MacLean (b.1683) M.A., of the MacLeans of Boreray, North Uist. Archibald's...
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