St Kilda Islands (England)

This tiny island is lurking on the Atlantic Ocean, 160km from the Scottish coast, formed by the ruins of a volcano whose disintegration and freezing created vertical walls as high as 430m. These are the tallest and most spectacular cliffs in Europe.

The St Kilda fauna is an interesting example of the genetic dispersion of a limited population of animals developed in isolation: the tiny mice and the tailed birds at St Kilda are animals Very special things, not anywhere else.

The archipelago has one of the largest populations of seabirds in the North Atlantic, more than 1 million of them

Counted 52,000 Bassan pairs, 30,000 pairs of Funma albatross and 300,000 pairs of sea parrots. Despite being in isolation and harsh living conditions, St Kilda continues to have people in her home for 2,000 years. The people of this archipelago live on bird meat and bird eggs, weave wool of Soay sheep (one of the islands in the archipelago), an ancient breed of sheep that has now returned to its wild state.

In 1930 the islands enjoyed the " National Nature Reserve " status and were recorded in the World Heritage List in 1986 . The old village has been restored to a few rare tourists visiting the archipelago in the summer to see the harsh landscape and wild life on these isolated islands.