Stac Levenish
Stac Levenish or Stac Leibhinis is a sea stack in the St Kilda archipelago in Scotland. Lying 2.5 kilometres off Village Bay on Hirta, it is part of the rim of an extinct volcano that includes Dùn, Ruaival and Mullach Sgar.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Leverish”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dùn and Ruaival.
Dùn
Island
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dùn is an island in St Kilda, Scotland. It is nearly 1 mile long. Its name simply means "fort" in Scottish Gaelic, but the fort itself has been lost – old maps show it on Gob an Dùin, which is at the seaward end.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Kilda and Glen Mor.
St Kilda
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Kilda is a small archipelago in the Atlantic, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland, of which it's administratively part. Hirta is the main island, and there is no island called St Kilda.
Glen Mor
Locality
Photo: Ian Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glen Mor is a locality, which is situated 2½ miles northwest of Stac Levenish.
Stac Levenish
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.79341° or 57° 47′ 36″ northLongitude
-8.54035° or 8° 32′ 25″ westOpen location code
9C9HQFV5+9VOpenStreetMap ID
way 588814358OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Stac Levenish” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Левениш”
- Cebuano: “Levenish”
- Dutch: “Stac Levenish”
- French: “Stac Leibhinis”
- French: “Stac Levenish”
- German: “Levenish”
- German: “Stac Levenish”
- Hausa: “Stac Levenish”
- Irish: “Stac Leibhinis”
- Italian: “Stac Levenish”
- Polish: “Stac Levenish”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Stac Leibhinis”
- Swedish: “Levenish”
- Swedish: “Stac Levenish”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Seilg Geodha and Cnoc na Gaoithe.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bioda Mòr and Stac Levenish.
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