St Kilda facts
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When the islands of St Kilda were evacuated, the local subspecies of house mouse quickly went extinct as it depended so closely on human settlement
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The remote Scottish islands of St Kilda were continuously inhabited for two millennia or more, from the Bronze Age until the 29th of August 1930 when the last natives elected to move to the mainland; the last of these natives dies in August this year at age 93
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Australia's first ever iron clad war ship once fired a shell in the wrong direction and blew the roof off of a St Kilda bakery.
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St. Kilda is part of the Outer Hebrides Islands off the Scottish coast. It had been inhabited for at least 2000 years before permanently being evacuated in 1930.
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In the 19th century (and presumably also before), the official postal system on the island of St Kilda was sending messages in bottles.
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In 1727, eleven people survived 9 months on a sea stack in winter (Stac_an_Armin) therefor accidentally avoiding a smallpox outbreak in their home settlement on nearby Hirta (St Kilda).
