The smallest fragment of source material related to natural history can evoke sweeping cinematic images. Walton Ford Gagosian is pleased to announce a.
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The image is a view from the summit of Mullach Mor on Hirta, the main island of the St Kilda archipelago. Boreray is the bigger island to the right. The central stac is Stac Lee (NA1405) and to the left is Stac an Armin (NA1506).
by Phil Thirkell
Introduction
The St Kilda archipelago is located about 65 km WNW of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Na h-Eileanan an Iar). It comprises three main islands (Hirta, Soay and Boreray) as well as Dun and many sea stacks. Hirta was inhabited for many centuries (it is unlikely that any of the other islands were ever permanently inhabited), but finally in 1930 the remaining inhabitants requested relocation to the mainland of Scotland, where the men found work in forestry or similar occupations. The last 36 residents left on 29 August that year.
The Riddle Of Gannets – Jim Crumley
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on the wing so far from their natural habitat
There were three large birds silhouetted against the sky, apparently making little headway against what was no more than a lively west wind. I knew what they looked like, but if I was right then there was no reason for them to be discomfited by such a wind and, in fact, no reason for them to be there at all.
Except that it had happened once before, about 20 years ago, in almost exactly the same place and at almost exactly the same time of year. That first time I was utterly thrown by the context in which the birds appeared – it was minutes before I realised what they were, though I had seen them many times in their true oceanic context – but not there, and not like that.