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XXI.—The Geology of St Kilda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

A. M. Cockburn
A. M. Cockburn
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Edinburgh.
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St Kilda (Pl. V), the largest of a group of four islands located some 50 miles west of Harris in Latitude 57° 49′ N., Longitude 8° 34′ W., has an extreme length and breadth of 2½ by 1¾ miles and a circumference of about 8¾ miles. The highly indented coast-line is guarded by almost impregnable cliffs except in the Village Bay or Loch Hirta where there is a strip of sand a quarter of a mile long backed by a great storm-beach. The two principal inlets of the sea, Village Bay or Loch Hirta, and the Glen Bay open to the south-east and north-west respectively.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 58 , Issue 2 , 1935 , pp. 511 - 547
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1935

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