In 1877, George Seton, a visitor to the tiny Scottish archipelago of St. Kilda, observed that the men ... scattering across the west of Scotland. The final surviving islander died last spring.

The archipelago of St Kilda, Scotland, is one of Britain's most remote islands that harbours a colourful and layered history. That is because St Kilda was inhabited at least 5,000 years ago ...

Kenneth Macaulay, a Church of Scotland minister who visited in 1758, published ‘The History of St. Kilda’ which includes a description of what he encountered during a time when the local ...

As the most westernmost archipelago of Scotland's Outer Hebrides, St Kilda makes for a striking sight, and many of those who make the journey find it difficult to believe that it was once home to ...

The tiny archipelago of St Kilda, lying off the west coast of mainland Scotland, is breathtaking. Formed from the rim of an ancient volcano associated with the opening up of the North Atlantic some 65 ...

Then I discovered the other St Kilda, an uber-wild and windswept volcanic archipelago in the middle of nowhere (OK, in the North Atlantic Ocean, about 180 kilometres west of mainland Scotland).

National Trust for Scotland, which manages St Kilda as a Unseco World Heritage site, was consulted on the expedition. Mr Phillips and other members of the team jumped to the sea level base of the ...

St Kilda - 40 miles west of the Western Isles of Scotland - is home to thousands of seabirds, including one of the world's largest colonies of northern gannets (approximately 24% of the global ...

The island of St Kilda in Scotland hosts the UK's largest Atlantic puffin colony, with around 100,000 pairs of birds. In the southern Carpathians, west of Brașov, conservationists are hoping to ...