St Kilda (Scottish Gaelic: Hiort) is a remote archipelago situated 35 nautical miles (65 km; 40 mi) west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic...
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St Kilda may refer to: Scotland: St Kilda, Scotland, archipelago in the north Atlantic off the west coast of the Scottish mainland Australia: St Kilda...
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Hirta (redirect from Hirta, St Kilda)
Hirta (Scottish Gaelic: Hiort) is the largest island in the St Kilda archipelago, on the western edge of Scotland. The names Hiort (in Scottish Gaelic)...
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Soay (Scottish Gaelic: Soaigh) is an uninhabited islet in the St Kilda archipelago, Scotland. The name is from Old Norse Sauðey, meaning "island of sheep"...
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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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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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islands of the St Kilda archipelago of northwest Scotland. They were first described, alongside the St Kilda field mouse, by natural historian Gerald Edwin...
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of the isolated St Kilda archipelago, in the Atlantic Ocean 64 kilometres (40 mi) west of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The St Kilda wren is distinguished...
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St Kilda is an inner seaside suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km (4 miles) south-east of the Melbourne central business district, located within...
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St Kilda Road is a street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is part of the locality of Melbourne which has the postcode of 3004, and along with Swanston...
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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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Soay sheep (category Fauna of St Kilda, Scotland)
(250-acre) island of Soay in the St Kilda Archipelago, about 65 kilometres (40 mi) from the Western Isles of Scotland. It is one of the Northern European...
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Stac an Armin (category St Kilda, Scotland)
an Armin (Scottish Gaelic: Stac an Àrmainn), based on the proper Scottish Gaelic spelling (formerly àrmuinn), is a sea stack in the St Kilda archipelago...
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of traditional songs taught to Morrison as a boy by a resident of St Kilda, Scotland. Alongside MacMillan, the album features arrangements by Craig Armstrong...
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Stac Lee (category St Kilda, Scotland)
Stac Lee (Scottish Gaelic: Stac Lì) is a sea stack in the St Kilda group off the west coast of Scotland. An island Marilyn (a point with topographic prominence...
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The Edge of the World (category St Kilda, Scotland)
by Michael Powell, loosely based on the evacuation of the Scottish archipelago of St Kilda. It was Powell's first major project. The title is a reference...
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St Kilda, Britain's Loneliest Isle (1928) is a short, silent film about St Kilda, an isolated archipelago to the west of Scotland, and the final period...
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Boreray sheep (category Fauna of St Kilda, Scotland)
Blackface, is a breed of sheep originating on the St Kilda archipelago off the west coast of Scotland and surviving as a feral animal on one of the islands...
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Stac Levenish (category St Kilda, Scotland)
(sometimes simply called Levenish/Leibhinis) is a sea stack in the St Kilda archipelago in Scotland. Lying 2.5 kilometres (1+1⁄4 nautical miles) off Village Bay...
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Martin Martin (category St Kilda, Scotland)
of Scotland (1703; second edition 1716). This book is particularly noted for its information on the St Kilda archipelago. Martin's description of St Kilda...
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Rocabarraigh (category St Kilda, Scotland)
Rockall, a real islet in the North Atlantic. When Martin Martin visited St Kilda in 1716, he refers to it as Rockoll, but goes on to mention that the locals...
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Stac an Armin, St. Kilda, Scotland, in July 1840, the last great auk seen in Britain was caught and killed. Three men from St. Kilda caught a single...
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Ewen Gillies (category St Kilda, Scotland)
pioneering adventurer and serial emigrant from the remote Scottish island of Hirta, St Kilda. During a lifetime punctuated by migration, he settled for...
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Dùn (redirect from Dun, St Kilda)
Dùn is an island in St Kilda, Scotland. It is nearly 1 mile (1.6 kilometres) long. Its name simply means "fort" in Scottish Gaelic (for more information...
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Rockall (category Skerries of Scotland)
kilometres (187 statute miles; 163 nautical miles) west of Soay, St Kilda, Scotland; 423 kilometres (263 statute miles; 228 nautical miles) northwest...
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2019). "Key wildlife". National Trust for Scotland. Retrieved 21 July 2019. UNESCO World Heritage Centre. "St Kilda". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved...
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Mediterranean to London it was named Lady of St Kilda after the island of St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland to commemorate a visit to the island by...
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St Kilda Wedding is a folk album by Scottish traditional music group Ossian recorded and released in 1978. The original LP release was on Iona Records...
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Taraxacum pankhurstianum (redirect from St Kilda Dandelion)
the island of Hirta, the largest island in the St Kilda archipelago, on the western edge of Scotland. The species was named for Richard Pankhurst, a...
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Williamina Barclay (category St Kilda, Scotland)
who was one of the main initiators of the evacuation of the Scottish archipelago St Kilda. Barclay was born in Glasgow to Jessie Maxwell and Andrew Barclay...
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