Our St Kilda rangers get very close to a basking shark 🦈😅 . Diving, snorkelling or swimming with marine mammals or basking sharks is not recommended. However, if you do encounter animals while in the water, please follow the guidance in The Scottish Marine Wildlife Watching Code, and take extreme care not to disturb the animals or put yourself in danger. | National Trust for Scotland

20K views · 538 reactions | Cal Major - Ocean Advocate and our ambassador – recently spent some time volunteering with our team on St Kilda, creating a series of short films about her adventures on this wild archipelago. In this episode of her St Kilda Diaries, we head to the remotest part of Hirta, sampling one of the island's biggest puffin colonies to measure its response to avian flu. #ForTheLoveOfScotland | National Trust for Scotland | Facebook

St Kilda is the only dual UNESCO World Heritage Site in the UK, one of only 39 in the world. The archipelago consists of the main island of Hirta, along with Dun, Soay and Boreray, and the sea stacks Levenish, Stac an Armin and Stac Lee – the highest in Britain. The islands are internationally recognised for their birdlife, home to nearly one million seabirds including the largest colony of puffins in the UK. The world’s largest colony of gannets also nests on the sea stacks and Boreray. St Kild

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19K views · 311 reactions | With 40,000 years of Indigenous history, through the first days of European settlement in St Kilda and the epic battles from the local community to Save the Espy, this site has some serious history… | The Espy | Facebook

A medley of gales, rough seas, nesting birds and the risk of non-native species arriving are just a few of the challenges our staff and contractors have faced during work on a major project to conserve the St Kilda Kirk, as its two hundredth anniversary approaches. This first project phase has been made possible thanks to funding from Historic Environment Scotland, St Kilda Club, The National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA, Noble Caledonia Charitable Trust and McCorquodale Charitable Trust. #

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have always held a special place in St Kilda history. | St Kilda Football Club