St Kilda: The Abandoned Scottish Archipelago || Hirta Island || Soay Island

This is St Kilda Island, the westernmost island of the Hebrides of Scotland. Why was it abandoned?

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[DCL]

Fantastic video, you’re channel will explode in popularity one day!

[Lizahera]

So nice video. Thank you for making so much quality content ❤️.

[barrieclyne]

In June 1957, under the care of the Royal Air Force, I spent one month on the Island. A stay under canvas.
I was from HQ Nr. 40 Group, based at RAF Bicester; and part of Maintenance Command.
Duties, setting up a Station HQ and assisting the CO.

Why the RAF, you may question?

The object was managing, 5004 Squadron Air Field Construction Unit, who were tasked with building infrastructure for the MOD's continuing presence on the Island of St Kilda.
Several of staff also taken there where Civil Servants with Civil Engineering degrees, wearing Air Force uniforms, appropriate to their grade.

Life with an Airfield Construction Unit was far removed from my own experience of air force life.

Nevertheless, huge care was taken, by all of us, to preserve the Island's fragile nature and remaining archaeology... in many ways their work was and is a testament to the brilliance of the RAF and its attention to detail; it brought 20th century civilisation to the Isle, for all.

Posted for Historic purpose.

[Whereiskylechris]

Doha, Qatar! Awesome channel! super high quality content!

[Ryugengo]

I found this place when I was randomly browsing through Google Earth. Most of my questions were answered in this video, but I am still wondering what was the purpose of the wall around the settlement? What were they defending against? Sheep? Also, the monarch of the country shouldn't have been visible in the end of the video, it makes it obvious :)

[donlake]

Well done. This was a fascinating story and your presentation was very good.

[InfinityWax]

Great video, somewhere I’ve always been interested in for some reason.

[karfomachet]

St Kilda was in fact all ready somewhat christian when the methodist minister arrived in the 1820s, they had a mixed - syncretic catholic / Druidic religion .

[ClarenceCochran-nedu]

That's not Cyrrilic, but a very old Gaelic (Airilic) calligraphy. Gaelic originally wasn't a written language, but purely a spoken one. If you freeze the video and look closely, the letters are very similar to those used by the early Irish Monasteries, like Kells and Iona. Very difficult to read with our eyes used to modernized Roman alphabet. The Gaelic alphabet consists of only 18 letters, and they weren't written as we write now, which was replaced with the more modern Gaelic alphabet in the first half of the 20th century.
So it's not surprising that the St. Kildans would use a more primitive alphabet.

I took lessons in Gaelic from a lady who emigrated from the Aran Islands. When she wrote out lessons, she used an older form of writing than what's usually printed in books. Her daughter often stopped by the classes she gave, and would often complain about her mom's archaic writing.

[edwardmclean]

We visited the island some years ago from a 2 mast sailing ship Bessie Ellen. Scotland Heritege had someone on site for the summer.
He told us that by 1930 of the 37 inhabitants there were only 6 able bodied men to do all the labour so they asked to be relocated to the mainland.

[TheSanityInspector]

Fascinating video! I wonder if the islanders' descendants still try to keep their ancestral identity in some fashion?

[robinhazell]

A supply boat visited St Kilda twice ayear, so the people wwere NOT completely sef sufficiant. The boats brought foods and supplies and took back Tweed that was made on St Kilda. IMPORTANT NOTE. Not all of the footage is from St Kilda. You show storks on nests with a chick a few times. Storks are not found on ST kilda.

[smallfeet]

heb re dides lol, this is going to be fun, i knew someone whos father came from there

[randallgvideos]

Great video, I've always wanted to visit there.

[gequitz]

It's tragic to see ancient culture once cherished by it's people destroyed by modernity.

I just hope the descendants of the cleat-builders and druids are happy living in the world as we know it. And ideally making their ancestors proud.

[josephatthecoop]

An informative and touching story, thank you. I'm amused by the stock footage at 8:54, though. I somehow doubt the islanders wrote out their petition in some kind of Cyrillic (Russian, maybe?) calligraphy.

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[harrydebastardeharris]

There is a suburb of Melbourne that’s called St.Kilda. Apparently that is as far as the St Kilda diaspora reached.

[kyleallen]

my ancestors came of the island in the early 1870's and migrated to Australia. family rumour is that they were dragged off the island kicking and screaming, but I'm not sure the truth of that.