Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'St Kilda' has mentioned 'Island' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| [note 1] The largest island is Hirta, whose sea cliffs are the highest in the United Kingdom; three other islands (Dxc3xb9n, Soay and Boreray) were also used for grazing and seabird hunting. | WIKI |
| The islands' human heritage includes numerous unique architectural features from the historic and prehistoric periods, although the earliest written records of island life date from the Late Middle Ages. | WIKI |
| The medieval village on Hirta was rebuilt in the 19th century, but illnesses brought by increased external contacts through tourism, and the upheaval of the First World War contributed to the island's evacuation in 1930. | WIKI |
| The entire remaining population was evacuated from Hirta, the only inhabited island, in 1930. | WIKI |
| They share the island with a small military base established in 1957. | WIKI |
| He also speculates that it refers to the Culdees, anchorites who might have brought Christianity to the island, or be a corruption of the Gaelic name for the main island of the group, since the islanders tended to pronounce r as l, and thus habitually referred to the island as Hilta. | 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 |
| [24] In a similar vein, Murray (1966) speculates that the Norse Hirxc3xb0xc3xb6, pronounced 'Hirtha' ("herd island"), could be another origin of the name. | 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 |
| Next in size are Soay (English: "sheep island") at 99 hectares (240 acres) and Boreray ('the fortified isle'), which measures 86 hectares (210 acres). | WIKI |
| [18][28] The island of Dxc3xb9n ('fort'), which protects Village Bay from the prevailing southwesterly winds, was at one time joined to Hirta by a natural arch. | WIKI |
| At the time of Martin's visit in 1697 the population was 180 and the steward travelled with a "company" of up to 60 persons to which he "elected the most 'meagre' among his friends in the neighbouring islands, to that number and took them periodically to St. Kilda to enjoy the nourishing and plentiful, if primitive, fare of the island, and so be restored to their wonted health and strength. | WIKI |
| This figure remained fairly constant from the 18th century until 1851, when 36 islanders emigrated to Australia on board the Priscilla, a loss from which the island never fully recovered. | WIKI |
| He reorganised island agriculture, was instrumental in the rebuilding of the village (see below) and supervised the building of a new church and manse. | WIKI |
| Time spent in religious gatherings interfered seriously with the practical routines of the island. | WIKI |
| During a period of food shortages on the island, a relief vessel arrived on a Saturday, but the minister said that the islanders had to spend the day preparing for church on the Sabbath, and it was Monday before supplies were landed. | WIKI |
| [65] The mainstay of their food supplies was the profusion of island birds, especially gannet and fulmar. | WIKI |
| This feature of island life came at a price. | WIKI |
| An important island tradition involved the 'Mistress Stone', a door-shaped opening in the rocks north-west of Ruival over-hanging a gully. | WIKI |
| Young men of the island had to undertake a ritual there to prove themselves on the crags and worthy of taking a wife. | WIKI |
| Improved midwifery skills, denied to the island by John Mackay, reduced the problems of childhood tetanus. | WIKI |
| Talk of an evacuation occurred in 1875 during MacKay's time as minister, but despite occasional food shortages and a flu epidemic in 1913, the population was stable at between 75 and 80, and no obvious sign existed that within a few years the millennia-old occupation of the island was to end. | WIKI |
| In a belated response, the German submarine SM U-90[79] arrived in Village Bay on the morning of 15 May 1918 and, after issuing a warning, started shelling the island. | WIKI |
| One lamb was killed... all the cattle ran from one side of the island to the other when they heard the shots. | WIKI |
| Both were factors in the evacuation of the island little more than a decade later. | WIKI |
| Able bodied young islanders left for a better life, resulting in a breakdown of the island economy". | WIKI |
| The changes made to the island by visitors in the nineteenth century disconnected the islanders from the way of life that had allowed their forebears to survive in this unique environment. | WIKI |
| After the War, most of the young men left the island, and the population fell from 73 in 1920 to 37 in 1928. | WIKI |
| [88] All the cattle and sheep were taken off the island two days before the evacuation by the tourist boat, Dunara Castle, for sale on the mainland. | WIKI |
| However, all the island's working dogs were drowned in the bay because they could not be taken. | WIKI |
| The sky was hopelessly blue and the sight of Hirta, green and pleasant as the island of so many careless dreams, made parting all the more difficult. | WIKI |
| But as the long antler of Dun fell back onto the horizon and the familiar outline of the island grew faint, the severing of an ancient tie became a reality and the St Kildans gave way to tears. | WIKI |
| [103] With no permanent population, the island population can vary between 20 and 70, most living here temporarily. | WIKI |
| Nearby is the 'Bull's House', a roofless rectangular structure in which the island's bull was kept during winter. | WIKI |
| Dr Johnson said, if Mxe2x80x99Leod would let it be known that he had such a place for naughty ladies, he might make it a very profitable island. | WIKI |
| [3] It had several traits in common with a sub-species (Mus musculus mykinessiensis) found on Mykines island in the Faroe Islands. | WIKI |
| Its plant life is heavily influenced by island's natural environment such as the salt spray, strong winds and acidic peaty soils. | WIKI |
| There was concern that bird life on the island could be seriously affected. | WIKI |
| The islandsxe2x80x99 isolation has led to two outstanding examples of remote island ecological colonisation and subsequent genetic divergence in the two endemic sub-species, the St Kilda Wren and St Kilda Fieldmouse. | UNESCO |
| The islands provide an exceptionally well preserved and documented example of how, even in the most extreme conditions of storm-swept isolated island living, people were able to live for thousands of years from exploiting natural resources and farming. | 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 |
| Criterion (x): St Kilda is one of the major sites in the North Atlantic and Europe for seabirds with over 1,000,000 birds using the island. | UNESCO |
| The maritime grassland turf and underwater habitats are also significant and an integral element of the total island setting. | UNESCO |