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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 Ocean.It contains the westernmost islands of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
St Kilda was continuously inhabited for two millennia or more, from the Bronze Age to the 20th century. [1]However, little is known of the early history, the first written record of which dates from the late 14th century when John of Fordun mentions 'the isle of Irte, which is agreed to be under the Circius and on the margins of the world'. [2]
The City of St Kilda was a local government area on Port Phillip, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 8.70 square kilometres (3.36 sq mi), and existed from 1855 until 1994.
The St Kilda archipelago. Along with the rest of the archipelago, Soay is owned by the National Trust for Scotland, managed by NatureScot as a nature reserve and is included it the St Kilda World Heritage Site. [7] It is unlikely that this island ever had permanent habitation. Men from Hirta would stay for a few days while gathering wool. [8]
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, Queensland, a locality in Bundaberg Region; St Kilda, South Australia, suburb of Adelaide, Australia; St Kilda, Victoria, suburb of Melbourne, Australia City of St Kilda, former municipality in ...
St Kilda is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. A densely populated residential suburb, it lies on the southern part of the city's central plain, to the southwest of the head of the harbour and immediately north of Ocean Beach , parts of which (St Kilda Beach and Middle Beach) are within the suburb and form its major geographical feature.
St Kilda is an inner seaside suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, six kilometres (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles) southeast of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Port Phillip local government area.
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 island 40 miles (64 km) west of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, and 100 miles (160 km) from mainland Scotland. [1]