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The now uninhabited St Kilda became Scotland's first World Heritage Site in 1987 and is one of the few in the world to hold joint status for both its ecological and cultural significance. The range occupies 115,000 km 2 of sanitised airspace with unlimited altitude. The missiles are tracked from St Kilda which is now leased by the Ministry of ...
Macaulay, Kenneth (1764), The History of St Kilda, T Becket and P A De Hondt, London (Internet Archive) Macauley, Margaret (2009) The Prisoner of St Kilda: The true story of the unfortunate Lady Grange, Edinburgh, Luath ISBN 978-1-906817-02-2; McCutcheon, Campbell St. Kilda: a Journey to the End of the World, Tempus, 2002 ISBN 0-7524-2380-0
As of 1930, St Kilda was owned by Sir Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod and sold to the Earl of Dumfries, later Marquess of Bute, in 1931. He bequeathed it National Trust for Scotland in 1957. [6] St Kilda was designated as Scotland's first World Heritage Site in 1987. A few facilities for visitors are available on the island.
Martin wrote about the island after the Scottish writer had visited St Kilda in 1697 and included a few anecdotes about the stack in his A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland published in 1703. It was the first comprehensive book on the archipelago, to which was appended "A Late Voyage to St Kilda". Martin calls the island "Stack-Narmin."
Uist is a group of six islands that are part of the Outer Hebridean Archipelago, which is part of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. North Uist and South Uist ( / ˈ juː ɪ s t / or / ˈ uː ɪ s t / ; Scottish Gaelic : Uibhist [ˈɯ.ɪʃtʲ] ) are two of the islands and are linked by causeways running via the isles of Benbecula and Grimsay .
There are other outliers with cultural links to the Outer Hebrides that are not part of the archipelago itself. These include the St Kilda group, which are quite distinct geologically and no longer inhabited, [5] Sula Sgeir and North Rona to the north and isolated Rockall, which is 367 kilometres (228 mi) to the west of North Uist. [Note 3]
Like the other stacks and islands of St Kilda, Stac Biorach is extraordinarily rich in birdlife, and boasts the largest colony of guillemots in the archipelago. [27] Today the whole of the St Kilda archipelago is a National nature reserve and bird life is protected. In the past however, these birds and their eggs were a crucial resource for the ...
Although greater than 40 hectares in size it fails to meet the definition of an island used in this list as it is only surrounded by water during occasional spring tides and storms. [62] Dùn in St Kilda is separated from Hirta by a shallow strait about 50 metres (160 feet) wide. This is normally impassable but is reputed to dry out on rare ...