St Kilda

St Kilda lies 65 kilometres out into the Atlantic to the west of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. This isolated and spectacular archipelago of Islands emerged from a huge volcano more than 50 million years ago. The rim of the volcano is defined by the curve of islands and sea stacs that emerge from the sea like skyscrapers. The cliffs of Conachair intrude through Lewisian gneiss, the oldest rock in the world, and rise to 425 m (1,394 ft) above sea level. Stac An Armin is the highest sea stac in Britain. St Kilda is an amazing place that has fascinated travellers for centuries and was known to navigators as “the islands at the end of the world”.