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The text related to the cultural heritage 'St Kilda' has mentioned 'Archipelago' in the following places:
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Archipelago in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom | WIKI |
St Kilda (Scottish Gaelic: Hiort) is an isolated archipelago situated 64 kilometres (40xc2xa0mi) west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean. | WIKI |
The entire archipelago is owned by the National Trust for Scotland. | WIKI |
Maclean (1972) similarly suggests it comes from a corruption of the Old Norse name for the spring on Hirta, Childa, and states that a 1588 map identifies the archipelago as Kilda. | WIKI |
Maclean (1972) further suggests that the Dutch simply made a cartographical error, and confused Hirta with Skildar, the old name for Haskeir island much nearer the main Outer Hebrides archipelago. | WIKI |
The St Kilda archipelago | WIKI |
The archipelago represents the remnants of a long-extinct ring volcano rising from a seabed plateau approximately 40 metres (130xc2xa0ft) below sea level. | WIKI |
At 670 hectares (1,700 acres) in extent, Hirta is the largest island in the group and comprises more than 78% of the land area of the archipelago. | WIKI |
The highest point in the archipelago, Conachair ('the beacon') at 430 metres (1,410xc2xa0ft), is on Hirta, immediately north of the village. | WIKI |
The archipelago is the site of many of the most spectacular sea cliffs in the British Isles. | WIKI |
The archipelago's remote location and oceanic climate are matched in the UK only by a few smaller outlying islands such as the Flannan Isles, North Rona, Sula Sgeir, and the Bishop's Isles at the southern edge of the Outer Hebrides. | WIKI |
Archeologists working at the archipelago between 2017 and 2019 confirmed habitation as long as 2,000 years ago. | WIKI |
There are over 1,400 cleitan known throughout the St Kilda archipelago, but they are concentrated in the area around the village". | WIKI |
Much more is known of the hundreds of unique cleitean that decorate the archipelago. | WIKI |
[146] The St Kilda archipelago has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International for its seabird colonies. | WIKI |
The archipelago's isolation has resulted in a lack of biodiversity. | WIKI |
One beetle, the rare and endangered weevil, Ceutorhynchus insularis, is known from only Dxc3xb9n and the Westmann Islands, an archipelago off the south-west coast of Iceland. | WIKI |
No trees grow on the archipelago, although there are more than 130 different flowering plants, 162 species of fungi and 160 bryophytes. | WIKI |
On his death on 14 August 1956, the Marquess of Bute's will bequeathed the archipelago to the National Trust for Scotland provided they accepted the offer within six months. | WIKI |
The tiny archipelago of St Kilda, lying off the west coast of mainland Scotland, is breathtaking. | UNESCO |
The sight and sound of these myriad seabirds adds significantly to the scenic value and to the experience of the archipelago during the breeding season. | UNESCO |
The combination of oceanic influences (proximity of deep ocean currents along the continental slope, extreme exposure to waves and oceanic swell, high water clarity) and local geology around the archipelago has created a marine environment of unparalleled richness and colour. | UNESCO |
Recent research indicates that the archipelago has been occupied on and off for over 4000 years. | UNESCO |
The landscape including houses, large enclosures and cleits xe2x80x93 unique drystone storage structures found, in their hundreds, across the islands and stacks within the archipelago xe2x80x93 culminates in the surviving remains of the nineteenth and twentieth century cultural landscape of Village Bay. | UNESCO |
The poignancy of the archipelagoxe2x80x99s history, and the remarkable fossilised landscape, its outstanding and spectacular natural beauty and heritage, its isolation and remoteness, leave one in awe of nature and of the people that once lived in this spectacular and remarkable place. | UNESCO |
Criterion (vii): The scenery of the St Kilda archipelago is particularly superlative and has resulted from its volcanic origin followed by weathering and glaciation to produce a dramatic island landscape. | UNESCO |
The natural heritage of the archipelago is the result of natural processes coupled with its long history of human occupation and, more recently, external human influences. | UNESCO |
Ownership and stewardship of the archipelago by the National Trust for Scotland, the statutory designations in place, the archipelagoxe2x80x99s remote location, the difficulty of accessing it and human activities almost entirely centred upon Hirta, have significantly contributed to retaining the integrity of the archipelagoxe2x80x99s heritage. | UNESCO |
Climatic conditions and coastal erosion remain the main threat to the abandoned houses, cleits and other archaeological remains across the archipelago. | UNESCO |
The primary legislation that protects the archipelago and surrounding seas and their key attributes are: The Conservation (Natural Habitats. | UNESCO |
The archipelago and surrounding seas are protected by a number of national and international designations, both statutory and non-statutory. | UNESCO |
The National Trust for Scotland (NTS), a charity, owns and manages the archipelago of St Kilda. | UNESCO |
Management of the cultural heritage will proceed on the basis of the minimum intervention required to sustain the attributes of the propertyxe2x80x99s Outstanding Universal Value, underpinned by the recent intensive and systematic archaeological survey of the whole archipelago, carried out by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. | UNESCO |
Many of the challenges facing St Kilda and/or the NTS in its management of the archipelago -e.g. | UNESCO |