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Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 30, 2020
Category: Communications | Oceans and Maritime Pursuits | Regionalism | Europe

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There is more than one reason why St. Kilda (by the way, there's no such saint, the etymology of that name is weird and disputed) is no longer inhabited. I bet this was one of them, but I also suspect the diet of sea weed and puffin meat was more pressing.

Posted by Richard Bos on 08/30/20 at 10:11 AM

Interesting history on Wikipedia. A good read.

Posted by Steve E. on 08/30/20 at 01:04 PM

For anyone looking for a link to the original article, here it is: https://archive.org/details/busymansmagazine21torouoft/page/n123/mode/1up

Posted by ges on 08/30/20 at 10:15 PM

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