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The last and outmost isle

The last and outmost isle

A brief history of the abandoned Scottish islands of St Kilda

Mathew Lyons
Mar 28, 2025
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The small archipelago of St Kilda, some fifty miles west of Harris, has long attracted a kind of romantic attention for its remoteness, with the sense of deep strangeness and difference such remotene…

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