St Kilda World Heritage Site - St Kilda | National Trust for Scotland
WEBThe UK’s only dual UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of only 39 in the world. Home to nearly 1 million seabirds, including the UK’s largest colony of Atlantic puffins. Evacuated on 29 August 1930 after the remaining 36 islanders voted to leave as their way of life was no longer sustainable.
St Kilda, Scotland - Wikipedia
WEBIn 1986 the islands became the first place in Scotland to be inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for its terrestrial natural features. [177] In 2004, the WHS was extended to include a large amount of the surrounding marine …
St Kilda | World Heritage Site | Historic Environment Scotland
WEBSt Kilda is a group of five remote islands – Hirta, Soay, Boreray, Dun and Levenish – in the North Atlantic, 100 miles off the west coast of Scotland. It is one of the few World Heritage Sites to hold mixed status for its cultural and natural qualities.
St Kilda World Heritage Site - VisitScotland
WEBDiscover the awe-inspiring archipelago, St Kilda – the UK’s only dual UNESCO World Heritage Site. Home to nearly 1 million seabirds, it includes the UK’s largest colony of Atlantic puffins. With its dramatic landscape of sheer cliffs and sea stacks, St Kilda National Nature Reserve feels like a place perched on the edge of the world.
St. Kilda | For UNESCO World Heritage Travellers
WEBSt. Kilda is a remote and uninhabited archipelago in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, renowned as a seabird breeding station and for its past human occupation in extreme conditions. The volcanic origins produced a dramatic landscape of …
St. Kilda | Scotland, Description, Gannets, World Heritage Site ...
WEBSt. Kilda, cluster of three small Atlantic islands in the Outer Hebrides group, Western Isles council area, Scotland, situated 110 miles (180 km) from the mainland. The islands, which escaped glaciation during the Ice Age, present a bare …
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St Kilda World Heritage Site - My Voyage Scotland
WEBThe St Kilda World Heritage Site is a haven for Scotland’s storied past. Flocking seabird colonies, abandoned villages, and a unique island ecology make these remote islands a fascinating place to discover on holiday.
St Kilda UNESCO World Heritage Site - VisitScotland
WEBHead over to the Outer Hebrides to learn more about St Kilda, a dual UNESCO World Heritage Site. It's a very special and hard to access place, but there's plenty you can learn while on the larger Hebridean islands.
St Kilda - World Heritage Sites
WEBWhy is St. Kilda a UNESCO World Heritage site? St Kilda bears witness to 2,000 to 5,000 years of isolated human settlement. The land use of their subsistence economy was based on birds, land cultivation under extreme conditions, and the husbandry of a sheep breed unchanged for millennia.
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