The archipelago of St. Kilda is one of the most important breeding grounds for seabirds, including northern gannets, Atlantic puffins and northern fulmars, in the North Atlantic.

The last 36 St Kildans left on 29 August 1930 because life had become too difficult on the remote archipelago. But summer can see as many as 35 people living on the main island of Hirta.

The last 36 people living on St Kilda, an archipelago to the west of the Outer Hebrides, left their island homes on 29 August, 1930, because life there was becoming untenable.

A licence for Scotland's last surviving guga hunt has been granted for the first time since 2021. For centuries, thousands of ...

St Kilda was inhabited 2,000 YEARS ago! Archaeologists discover Iron Age pottery on Scotland’s remote archipelago, indicating a community was ‘well established’ there ...

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, ...

In the August of that year the remaining 36 residents – 13 men, 10 women and 13 children – were collected from Hirta, the largest island in the St Kilda archipelago, by HMS Harebell. A glass ...

PEOPLE who lived on Britain's most remote island, St Kilda, were never an isolated "lost tribe" but were actually connected to a network of mainland communities for 3000 years, according to a ...

Last Thursday, there were 22 people on St Kilda but two were due to leave by the end of Friday. Recent census have recorded people on the archipelago. Image caption, ...

A short film has shown what life on the island of St Kilda was like in 1908. The clip, shared on the St Kilda Rangers Twitter page, gives a glimpse into ...

Eighty years after it was evacuated, St Kilda is providing a temporary home to as many people as lived there in 1930.