St Kilda, Scotland

St Kilda
Gaelic name	Hiort
Pronunciation	[hirˠʃt̪] ( listen)
Norse name	Possibly Skildir
Meanin o name	Unkent, possibly Gaelic for "westland"
Location
	St Kilda St Kilda shawn within the Waster Isles
OS grid reference	NF095995
Coordinates	57°48′N 8°36′W / 57.8°N 8.6°W
Physical geography
Island group	St Kilda
Aurie	854.6 ha
Heichest elevation	Conachair 430 m
Admeenistration
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Kintra	Scotland
Cooncil aurie	Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
Demografics
Population	No permanent population syne 1930
Lairgest settlement	Am Baile (the Veelage)
References

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Coordinates: 57°49′N 8°35′W / 57.817°N 8.583°W / 57.817; -8.583

St Kilda (Scots Gaelic: Hiort) is an isolatit airchipelago 64 kilometre (40 mi) wast-northwast o North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean.

References

↑ General Register Office for Scotland (28 November 2003). "Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 25 Julie 2007. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
↑ Get-a-map Archived 2013-10-07 at the Wayback Machine "NF095995" Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
↑ Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. pp. 314–26. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.
↑ "Protected Areas and World Heritage—St Kilda". Archived 2007-07-05 at Archive.today United Nations Environment Programme: World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Retrieved 18 March 2007.
↑ Mac an Tàilleir, Iain (2003) Ainmean-àite/Placenames. (pdf) Pàrlamaid na h-Alba. Retrieved 26 August 2012.

[1] General Register Office for Scotland (28 November 2003). "Occasional Paper No 10: Statistics for Inhabited Islands" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 25 Julie 2007. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[OS-2] Get-a-map Archived 2013-10-07 at the Wayback Machine "NF095995" Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 28 December 2007.

[Smith-3] Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004). The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. pp. 314–26. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7.

[UNEP-4] "Protected Areas and World Heritage—St Kilda". Archived 2007-07-05 at Archive.today United Nations Environment Programme: World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Retrieved 18 March 2007.

[5] Mac an Tàilleir, Iain (2003) Ainmean-àite/Placenames. (pdf) Pàrlamaid na h-Alba. Retrieved 26 August 2012.

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