Friday, March 5th, 2010
There is a set of spectacular photos of the marine world under St Kilda, over on the new Ionad Hiort website. Many thanks to the photographer Paul Kay. Click on the fish to see more.
St Kilda has been inscribed as a World Heritage Site under both natural and cultural criteria; ...
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
From the National Trust for Scotland website:
The National Trust for Scotland is recruiting for an Archaeologist based in Inverness and on St Kilda. St Kilda has an outstanding historic environment dominated by 19th & 20th century remains with a time-depth that belies the archipelagos remote North Atlantic position and it ...
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
This is the final section of an interesting and detailed piece on the Pygmies Isle (first mentioned by Dean Monro in 1549 as having been inhabited by "little people") near the Butt of Lewis , published by WC Mackenzie in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquities of Scotland, 13 March ...
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Press release from Buidheann Leasachaidh Ionad Hiort (The St Kilda Centre Development Group), 3 February 2010:
A public meeting in Uig, Lewis, this week formally established an organisation to pursue the remit of creating the St Kilda Centre/Ionad Hiort as a major visitor attraction for the Western Isles.
The initiative follows the ...
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
St Kilda, one of only 24 dual-status World Heritage Sites, is management by the National Trust for Scotland, which is revising its five-year Management Plan for the islands and seeking input from stakeholders on a number of issues.
Responses are invited from anyone with an interest in St Kilda: you don't ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Winter was always a difficult time for the inhabitants of St Kilda, but the winter of 1876-77 was unusual. From the Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 1878:
When the factor, Mr M'Kenzie, with MacLeod's vessel, did not put in an appearance in autumn last year [1876], as ...
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Thanks to Murray and Seatrek for this collection of pictures around Uig and St Kilda.
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
A statement from the Uig St Kilda group, 17 Nov 2009. More on the issue here and Uig's vision here.
We are very pleased that the Working Group has confirmed its recommendation of Mangurstadh as the location for Ionad Hiort/the St Kilda Centre. It is particularly welcome that Jura Consultants have ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
From the Press & Journal, 16 February 2009:
An image of a bygone era on the Hebridean island of St Kilda features on a banknote which enters circulation today.
The picture features ancestors of father and son Norman and John Gillies.
They appear on a new Clydesdale Bank £5 note, sitting outside a ...
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
The press release (3 November 2009) from the Uig community on the announcement of the St Kilda Centre decision. Detail of the Uig vision for Ionad Hiort is now on its own page, where updates will also appear.
The community group in the Uig area of Lewis which has promoted the ...
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
This short video by Ged Yeates was part of Uig's proposal for the St Kilda Centre - spectacular even in the face of Youtube compression.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
After months of consultation, Mangurstadh in Uig has been recommended as the preferred site for the proposed St Kilda Centre. From Hebrides News:
Following an independent feasibility study, funded by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and LEADER, the St Kilda Centre Working Group has announced the recommendations made ...
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Uig is vying with North Uist and Harris to be the site of the proposed St Kilda Centre. Our Uig location is the Geodha Sgoillte, between Mangurstadh and Islivig where the road is closest to the cliff edge, on a brownsite bearing the scant remains of a wartime radar station.
Written ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
Uig has been bidding for consideration as the site of the proposed St Kilda Centre, and we're pleased to hear that Mangersta in Uig is one of the shortlisted sites, along with Leverburgh in Harris and Cleitreabhal in North Uist. This press release outlined Uig's vision for the Centre.
The ...
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
As Hiort Weekend continues, here's a piece contributed by Alasdair Shearer (Aird/Australia) from the Celtic Magazine. The BBC programme An t-Hiortach, about the last surviving evacuee Norman Gillies and his return visit to the island, is available on the iPlayer now (UK only and until 5 Sept), and for those ...
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