Rare sheep on a remote Scottish island are being left to starve to death, it has been claimed. Soay sheep have roamed wild on the archipelago of St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides for thousands of years, ...

A 250-year-old census has revealed islanders on St Kilda ate more than 1,600 seabirds every day. The document is the earliest recorded list of the archipelago's population and was discovered by ...

Two vets have renewed their appeal for greater protection for a rare breed of sheep that lives on a remote Scottish archipelago. Soay roam wild on St Kilda and are descended from animals first brought ...

AN ABANDONED Scottish island has been named among the UK’s most haunted coastlines. Britain’s coastlines are brimming with ...

THE last surviving resident of abandoned Hebridean archipelago St Kilda has died aged 93. Rachel Johnson was born on the main island of Hirta and was eight-years-old when the last of the islanders ...

It is well established that weakened immune systems in old age affect people's health and fitness, but a study suggests that it is also an issue for wild animals. Researchers studying wild Soay sheep ...

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The Puff Inn, a bar on the island of Hirta, located 112 miles west of mainland Scotland, is looking to hire a new member of staff. The island, which is part of the St. Kilda archipelago, is home to ...

The remotest occupied island in the British Isles, the Outer Hebridean outlier Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago, has become symbolic of a utopia corrupted by modern, capitalist society. Originally a ...

This paper considers how the search for the sublime in nineteenth-century Scotland found its expression in the voyage to St Kilda, a remote island archipelago west of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. It ...