“Whatever he studies, the future observer of St Kilda will be haunted the rest of his life by the place, and tantalised by the impossibility of describing it, to those who have not seen it.”
James Fisher, naturalist – 1947
St Kilda: Island on the Edge of the World
For more than 2000 years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Its society was viable, even Utopian; but in the nineteenth century the island was discovered by missionaries, do-gooders and tourists, who brought money, disease and despotism. St Kildan culture gradually disintegrated and in 1930 the few remaining islanders asked to be evacuated.
St Kilda: remotest part of Great Britain, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides. So important it’s one of the few sites in the World with dual World Heritage status both for its interest historically and natural environment.
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