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St Kilda

St Kilda is a small archipelago in the Atlantic, 40 miles west of the or Western Isles of Scotland, of which it's administratively part. Hirta is the main island, and there is no island called St Kilda.
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  • Type: archipelago
  • Description: archipelago in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “St Kilda, Scotland” and “St. Kilda”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dùn and Soay.

Island
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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.

Island
Photo: Olaf1950, Public domain.
is an uninhabited islet in the St Kilda archipelago, . The name is from Old Norse Sauðey, meaning "island of sheep". The island is part of the St Kilda World Heritage Site and home to a primitive breed of sheep.

Islet
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a sea stack, 73 metres tall, situated in the Sound of Soay between the islands of and in the St Kilda archipelago of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glen Mor.

Locality
Photo: Ian Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a locality.

St Kilda

Latitude
57.8167° or 57° 49′ 0″ north
Longitude
-8.5833° or 8° 34′ 60″ west
Open location code
9C9HRC88+MM
Wiki­data ID
Q166479
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“St Kilda” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانت كيلدا”
  • Basque: “St Kilda”
  • Belarusian: “Сент-Кілда”
  • Breton: “Hiort”
  • Bulgarian: “Сейнт Килда”
  • Catalan: “Saint Kilda”
  • Catalan: “Santa Kilda”
  • Cebuano: “Saint Kilda (pulo)”
  • Cebuano: “Saint Kilda”
  • Chinese: “圣基尔达岛”
  • Chinese: “聖基爾達島”
  • Chinese: “聖基爾達群島”
  • Croatian: “Saint Kilda”
  • Croatian: “St Kilda”
  • Croatian: “St. Kilda”
  • Czech: “Hiort”
  • Czech: “Saint Kilda”
  • Czech: “St. Kilda”
  • Danish: “St Kilda (Skotland)”
  • Danish: “St Kilda”
  • Dutch: “Saint Kilda”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Kilda”
  • Dutch: “St Kilda”
  • Dutch: “St. Kilda”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانت كيلدا”
  • Esperanto: “Hiort”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta Kilda”
  • Esperanto: “Sankta Kildo”
  • Faroese: “St Kilda”
  • Faroese: “St. Kilda”
  • Finnish: “St kilda”
  • Finnish: “St. Kilda”
  • French: “Île de Saint-Kilda”
  • French: “Saint Kilda”
  • French: “Saint-Kilda”
  • French: “St Kilda”
  • French: “St-Kilda”
  • Galician: “San Kilda”
  • Georgian: “სენტ-კილდა”
  • German: “Sankt Kilda”
  • German: “St. Kilda”
  • Greek: “Σεντ Κίλντα”
  • Hebrew: “סנט קילדה”
  • Hebrew: “סנט-קילדה”
  • Hindi: “सेंट किल्डा, स्कॉटलैंड”
  • Hungarian: “Saint Kilda-szigetcsoport”
  • Icelandic: “St Kilda”
  • Icelandic: “St. Kilda”
  • Ido: “St Kilda”
  • Irish: “Hiort”
  • Italian: “Saint Kilda”
  • Italian: “St Kilda”
  • Japanese: “セント・キルダ”
  • Japanese: “セント・キルダ島”
  • Japanese: “セントキルダ島”
  • Korean: “세인트킬다 군도”
  • Latvian: “Hirhta”
  • Latvian: “Sentkilda salas”
  • Latvian: “Sentkilda”
  • Lithuanian: “Sent Kilda”
  • Maltese: “Saint Kilda”
  • Maltese: “St. Kilda”
  • Manx: “Heertçh”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “St Kilda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hiort”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saint Kilda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sankt Kilda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St Kilda i Skottland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St Kilda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “St. Kilda”
  • Norwegian: “St Kilda”
  • Persian: “سنت کیلدا (اسکاتلند)”
  • Persian: “سنت کیلدا”
  • Polish: “St Kilda”
  • Portuguese: “Saint Kilda”
  • Portuguese: “St kilda”
  • Russian: “Остров Св. Кильды”
  • Russian: “Сент-Килда”
  • Scots: “St Kilda, Scotland”
  • Scots: “St Kilda”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hiort”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hirt”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “St. Kilda”
  • Slovak: “St. Kilda”
  • Spanish: “Saint Kilda”
  • Spanish: “San Kilda”
  • Spanish: “St. Kilda”
  • Swedish: “Saint Kilda”
  • Swedish: “St Kilda”
  • Swedish: “St. Kilda”
  • Turkish: “St Kilda, İskoçya”
  • Turkish: “St Kilda”
  • Ukrainian: “Сент-Кілда”
  • Vietnamese: “St Kilda, Scotland”
  • Vietnamese: “St Kilda”
  • Welsh: “Sant Kilda”
  • Welsh: “St Kilda”
  • Welsh: “St. Kilda”
  • Western Frisian: “Sint Kilda”
  • Western Frisian: “Sint-Kilda”
  • Western Frisian: “St Kilda”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “St Kilda”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.