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

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  • This is St Kilda Island, the westernmost island of the Hebrides of Scotland. Why was it abandoned?
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  • @ajitated
    @ajitated 3 роки тому +12

    Commenting and liking, hopefully the algorithm blesses this amazing channel 😁

  • @DCL14388
    @DCL14388 3 роки тому +5

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

  • @Liza37hera
    @Liza37hera 3 роки тому +11

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

  • @barrieclyne7518
    @barrieclyne7518 5 місяців тому +3

    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.

  • @cushyglen4264
    @cushyglen4264 10 місяців тому +3

    Sailed there in the 80s.
    The British army were in residence & were hospitable.

  • @Whereiskylechris
    @Whereiskylechris 3 роки тому +7

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

    • @GeoPerspective
      @GeoPerspective  3 роки тому +1

      Bingo, your on top of the leader board!!!

  • @InfinityWax
    @InfinityWax 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @karfomachet7265
    @karfomachet7265 Рік тому +3

    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 .

  • @donlake7583
    @donlake7583 3 місяці тому

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

  • @Ryugengo
    @Ryugengo 2 роки тому +16

    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 :)

    • @GeoPerspective
      @GeoPerspective  2 роки тому +3

      Hai, can't answer your questions but thanks for watching to the end :)
      #

    • @scottydogx
      @scottydogx 2 роки тому +7

      It might have been protection against the sheep. The islanders used to grow a limited amount of crops around their homes. Stopping the sheep eating them would have been necessary. The wall would also provide the animals with some shelter from the winds.

    • @slurpeytea188
      @slurpeytea188 Рік тому

      me too and the isla of staffa awsome watch this was

    • @allrounder7003
      @allrounder7003 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@scottydogxyup crop protection. Separates the inbye from the outbye.

  • @christianwitness
    @christianwitness 5 місяців тому +1

    Good job. Thank you.😊

  • @randallgvideos
    @randallgvideos Рік тому +1

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

  • @user-lk6oj4bu1k
    @user-lk6oj4bu1k 4 місяці тому

    Wonderful video thank you..

  • @TheSanityInspector
    @TheSanityInspector 3 місяці тому +1

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

  • @robinhazell6019
    @robinhazell6019 Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @smallfeet4581
    @smallfeet4581 Рік тому +2

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

  • @mgs1302
    @mgs1302 3 роки тому +2

    Very good channel! Keep up your excellent work!
    Greetings from 🇩🇪

  • @scslre
    @scslre 3 місяці тому

    fascinating place.

  • @josephatthecoop
    @josephatthecoop 2 роки тому +3

    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.

    • @GeoPerspective
      @GeoPerspective  2 роки тому +2

      Thanks for watching 😀 yes, probably not Cyrillic. I'm just working with what footage I have access too.

  • @stubsy13
    @stubsy13 14 днів тому

    What a beautiful place! They should name an Australian football team after it.

  • @ClarenceCochran-ne7du
    @ClarenceCochran-ne7du 5 місяців тому

    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.

  • @MrPedur
    @MrPedur 3 місяці тому +2

    I have collected most of the material from St. Kilda, 142 vids : ua-cam.com/play/PL0YOWePxaaEH9sLmKmTh_wbJktb36y7O7.html&si=sIZZQpsHYoJZtWWP

  • @GCStalker
    @GCStalker 2 місяці тому

    Been there twice. You wouldn't want to be there during winter.

  • @allrounder7003
    @allrounder7003 11 місяців тому +3

    Hebrideedees and " the lack of medical care was sorely missed "?
    Must do better..

  • @theMOCmaster
    @theMOCmaster 3 роки тому +2

    I wonder if they knew of Rockall?

    • @GeoPerspective
      @GeoPerspective  3 роки тому +1

      Funny, I just had the HAI video on Rockall recommended to me and watched it. I'm guessing no.

  • @allamasadi7970
    @allamasadi7970 3 роки тому +3

    First comment and viewer!!

  • @ExploringCabinsandMines
    @ExploringCabinsandMines 26 днів тому

    Ahhh did he mention fresh water?

  • @VirginiaOuro520
    @VirginiaOuro520 Місяць тому

    E água potável para beber?

  • @Johnny-Thunder
    @Johnny-Thunder Рік тому +2

    5:06 Pagan until 1822?? For real?

    • @imperial109
      @imperial109 6 місяців тому

      Pagan-ish. In 1705 Reverend Alexander Buchan was the first recorded missionary to go to eradicate the Popish/Pagan customs, but it failed to take hold. Due to the location and difficult living conditions on St Kilda it was difficult to keep any sort of permanent religious institution on the island. It wasn't until 1822 when Reverend John MacDonald really took to the task of establishing a permanent modern day religion at St Kilda. Seeing to the construction of a church, manse and provisions for regular, consistent Christian religion. Sadly though it is considered that religion was one of the things that contributed to the decline of St Kilda. A strict minister called John MacKay had arrived in 1865 and over a 24 year period pretty much singlehandedly destroyed the St Kildan's culture and way of life.

  • @Fernandwinnie
    @Fernandwinnie 2 роки тому +2

    Why a map of England and Wales?

    • @GeoPerspective
      @GeoPerspective  Рік тому +1

      It’s just the one I have, the old map overlay doesn’t have copyright

  • @valmarsiglia
    @valmarsiglia Рік тому +4

    Hebri-dye-dees? 🤣

  • @margaretsmallallan28
    @margaretsmallallan28 11 місяців тому +1

    Where do they get their pronouncing from? Why the blazes do they not ask the Scots how to say a word before filming starts?

  • @hughgordon6435
    @hughgordon6435 Рік тому

    Sad that the St Kildale mouse and sparrow died out after the humans left?

    • @MrGreen1314
      @MrGreen1314 2 місяці тому +1

      The Field Mouse still survives. I saw one in 2022 when I was there.
      Unfortunately, the RSPB warden there thought it was probably dying of bird flu.

  • @jibjab351
    @jibjab351 2 роки тому +5

    HEBRI-DIDIES?

  • @shoptastik2250
    @shoptastik2250 Рік тому

    Move to be kirte

  • @Andre.Dienske
    @Andre.Dienske 3 місяці тому

    Comments with all breathing edited out, and sometimes parts of words, are not pleasant to listen to.

  • @shaneshankly4518
    @shaneshankly4518 6 місяців тому +9

    Why make a video to tell such a lie ? The people fought against leaving the island, it was a government plan to depopulate the island as it was with many islands in Britain and Ireland

    • @TheSilvercue
      @TheSilvercue Місяць тому

      This is not true. The islanders voted to leave and requested the government repatriate them in Scotland. Some of them did not want to sign the letter, so not all were agreed, but they went with the majority

    • @shaneshankly4518
      @shaneshankly4518 Місяць тому

      @@TheSilvercue lol what absolute nonsense 🤣 have you spent time on the island? There are documents to prove the vile plan

    • @TheSilvercue
      @TheSilvercue Місяць тому

      @@shaneshankly4518 really, why don’t you produce them. I have been to the island as much as you. I have read a lot about it. Some islands did suffer what you are talking about, this one had different circumstances.

    • @shaneshankly4518
      @shaneshankly4518 Місяць тому

      @@TheSilvercue sorry but I have wasted enough time on you 🙄

    • @TheSilvercue
      @TheSilvercue Місяць тому

      @@shaneshankly4518 🤣😂🤡

  • @backwatersandbackroads
    @backwatersandbackroads 2 роки тому +4

    I commend this film-maker for at least getting through most of this without dropping in the obligatory "climate change" boogyman...

  • @cushyglen4264
    @cushyglen4264 10 місяців тому +2

    The Hebrididies!?
    If you’re going to do a documentary get the pronunciation right otherwise you lose credibility.