The main St. Kildan island is Hirta. (Boreray lies 4 miles in the distance beyond). The small village was established on the lower slopes facing the bay, and the ruins remain (although several have been renovated and are in use by NTS volunteers). The present village was set out in the 1830s above Village Bay, but in the 1880s some of the population left for Australia, and the remaining inhabitants were finally evacuated in the 1930s because of hardship and storms that had cut off the islands for weeks. The island was bequeathed to the National Trust for Scotland in 1957 and was designated as Scotland's first World Heritage Site in 1987.

Date: 07 August 2013
Location : Hirta, St. Kilda
Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon 35mm lens , 1/20 f16 ISO 50
Image reference : StK10 © Angus Bruce, Ullapool