The map is available for public download ... In April last year the last indigenous resident of St Kilda died. Rachel Johnson was born on the main island of Hirta in July 1922 and was eight ...

There are no permanent residents on St Kilda today but the main island of Hirta is occupied all year round by the people who work on the military base. National Trust for Scotland (NTS ...

This is the first seabird survey on the remote St Kilda ... Hirta and what we saw of the landing site was not encouraging. "Even on a calm day, the Atlantic swell can run several metres up the sloping ...

Botanists from Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and Northumberland have been involved in studies of the flower found growing on Hirta. The island is the largest in the St Kilda archipelago ...

ST KILDA, the Scottish archipelago, has been dubbed the "real-life Jurassic Park" because of its wild and rugged landscape. It's found in the remote Outer Hebrides of Scotland where an estimated ...

A team from Guard Archaeology investigated St Kilda’s main island of Hirta, west of the Outer Hebrides, between 2017 and 2019. It was the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken on the ...

We've got another couple of hours to go until we reach our destination: St Kilda. The most remote ... continue their work mapping Hirta, the biggest island, the volunteers will carry out general ...

An abandoned UK island famous for its dramatic ... Defence established a radar tracking station on Hirta, which is still in ...

What they did not know, while clinging on to the bare face of Stac an Armin in the St Kilda archipelago where they had gone to hunt geese, were the horrors unfolding at home on Hirta where small ...

Islanders on the St Kilda archipelago ate more than 1,600 seabirds a day, a 250-year-old census reveals. The newly discovered document lists 90 people living on the main island of Hirta on June 15 ...

Hirta, the main island of St Kilda, was occupied until 1930 when the ... uses satellite and digital technology to map traces of human occupation on the islands from early prehistory through ...