Gob na Muice

Gob na Muice is a cape in Western Isles, Scotland.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dùn and Stac Levenish.

Dùn

Island

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.

Stac Levenish

Islet

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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.

Bradastac

Islet

Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bradastac is a sea stack in the St Kilda archipelago, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. It is just north of Hirta and has a height of 63 meters. The stack's name means "Steep stack" from Old Norse: bratti-stakkr.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Kilda and Glen Mor.

St Kilda

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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.