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Video guides highlight spectacular sailing around Lochaber and Western Isles
Launched by Sail Scotland the short films showcase Scottish marinas, anchorages and adventures, encouraging people to explore by boat and stay in new and unique, locations.
Landmark agreement links three St Kilda projects
The MoU commits the three projects to, ‘raise the profile of St Kilda and its
cultural and natural history, through co-ordination of the activities of its
member groups for the benefit of the whole Western Isles’.
Richard and Peggy face the deadly seas Corryvreckan and St Kilda
Richard Kerswell is making a solo trip around Britain in his yacht Peggy in aid of two third world charities – but he faced one of his greatest tests so far in the Gulf of Corryvreckan
St Kilda anniversary postcards wash up a thousand miles away on Norwegian island
In August, the mini mailboat last seen on St Kilda a decade previously was found by four children and their grandfather on a beach on Andøya, the northernmost island in the Vesterålen archipelago of Norway, about 180 miles inside the Arctic Circle and over 1,000 miles from St Kilda.
Artists mark 90th anniversary of St Kilda evacuation
A group of artists are taking the events of August 29 1930 as inspiration for a series of new artworks and creative writing exploring the echoes of the St. Kildan evacuation and how it still resonates nine decades on.