Back to Maps and Tours	Extended Tour – Slide List
Slide Number	Description
Slide 1	Village Bay from above.
Slide 2	Approaching Hirta from the sea, showing the army base with the Village in the background.
Slide 3	Recent buildings including the Manse (Minister's House).
Slide 4	The Village seen from the east.
Slide 5	The view from the west end of the Village.
Slide 6	The burn, Abhainn Mor, lies at the west end of the Village.
Slide 7	The incised cross built into House 16.
Slide 8	A view of the 19th-century. houses together with the older blackhouses and cleitean.
Slide 9	Remains of a blackhouse from the 1830s.
Slide 10	A male St Kilda wren proclaims its territory in the Village.
Slide 11	The head dyke behind the Village.
Slide 12	One of the vegetable enclosures which protected the plants from the effects of wind and sea spray.
Slide 13	Some of the cleitean which are found all over the islands.
Slide 14	Fulmars nesting on the grass turf roofs of cleitean.
Slide 15	The Earth House, known as Tigh an t-Sithiche ('House of the Fairies').
Slide 16	The graveyard in Village Bay.
Slide 17	The Factor's House, now used by the SNH warden.
Slide 18	The church (built in the 1830s) with the more recent attached schoolroom.
Slide 19	The Jetty (with Store in background).
Slide 20	The Store was damaged by a shell from a German U-boat during the First World War.
Slide 21	The Store after reconstruction by NTS work parties in the 1980s.
Slide 22	Close up of the Gun which was installed during the First World War.
Slide 23	The only beach on St Kilda, in Village Bay.
Slide 24	The sandy beach attracts wading birds such as these sanderlings.
Slide 25	Behind the Village, below the slopes of Oiseval and Conachair, is An Lag Bho'n Tuath.
Slide 26	Detail of the construction of one of the enclosures.
Slide 27	The rounded slopes of Oiseval, to the east of the Village.
Slide 28	Rounding the corner of Oiseval from Village Bay, we encounter steep cliffs.
Slide 29	Primroses on the lower slopes of Oiseval, looking back towards Dun.
Slide 30	The steep cliffs between Oiseval and Conachair known as The Gap.
Slide 31	The steep cliffs are home for fulmars and kittiwakes.
Slide 32	Close-up of a fulmar on a ledge.
Slide 33	The remains of an aircraft – one of three which crashed on the islands during the Second World War.
Slide 34	Mullach Sgar, to the west of Conachair.
Slide 35	The radar station, on Mullach Mor.
Slide 36	The bleak slopes of Gleann Mor, where the great skuas nest.
Slide 37	Close up of the great skua (or bonxie).
Slide 38	The stone structure known as the Amazon's House located in Gleann Bay.
Slide 39	These complex stone structures in Gleann Mor were latterly used as seasonal dwellings with attached sheepfolds.
Slide 40	The Cambir, a finger of land jutting out towards the island of Soay.
Slide 41	Between Hirta and Soay lies Stac Biorrach, which the St Kildans climbed to collect seabirds' eggs.
Slide 42	Soay lit by the sun.
Slide 43	The west side of Hirta and the slopes of Mullach Bi, with Soay in the background.
Slide 44	Roseroot, flourishing out of reach of the sheep.
Slide 45	Looking from Mullach Bi towards Dun.
Slide 46	The seabirds which nest here come in under cover of darkness and so are rarely seen.
Slide 47	Puffin nest on Carn Mor.
Slide 48	Storage cleit on Carn Mor.
Slide 49	The Lover's Stone.
Slide 50	The Mistress Stone.
Slide 51	Ruaival seen from the other side of Village Bay.
Slide 52	Platforms on Ruaival.
Slide 53	Dun from Ruaival.
Slide 54	Caolas an Duin, which separates Dun from Hirta.
Slide 55	Large numbers of puffins nest in burrows on the slopes of Dun, facing Village Bay.
Slide 56	Puffin burrows on the slopes of Dun.
Slide 57	Dun, from the Atlantic side.
Slide 58	A view out towards Levenish.
Slide 59	Divers returning from Levenish.
Slide 60	Stac An Armin, Stac Lee and Boreray from Hirta.
Slide 61	The rugged north face of Boreray seen from Stac an Armin.
Slide 62	Gentler grassy slopes on Boreray.
Slide 63	A group of cleitean on Boreray.
Slide 64	Stac an Armin (644 feet / 196 metres high).
Slide 65	Close-up of gannet chick.
Slide 66	A great auk specimen in Glasgow Museums.
Slide 67	Stac Lee (564feet / 172 metres high).
Slide 68	Gannets nesting on the summit slopes of Stac Lee.
Slide 69	Remains of the bothy on Stac Lee used by the St Kildans while harvesting gannets.
Slide 70	The casting point on Stac Lee.
Final Slide	A last look back to Dun, Hirta and Soay from Boreray and the stacs.