Scottish Ten 3-D scanning team reveal first laser images from St Kilda

A team from Historic Scotland and Glasgow School of Art have been digitally recording one of Scotland's most remote and spectacular locations – the World Heritage Site of St. Kilda. 

The Island archipelago, which carries the honour of being the remotest part of the British Isles, lies 41 miles west of Benbecula in Scotland's Outer Hebrides.

Now only populated by the military and the occasional naturalist, its dwindling population of 36 was finally evacuated after centuries of isolation following successive crop failures and illness in 1930.

The island and its buildings are being laser scanned as part of the Scottish Ten project, a groundbreaking initiative which uses cutting-edge technology to digitally record all five of Scotland's World Heritage Sites and five international sites in order to better conserve and manage them.

• Visit the official Scottish Ten website at www.scottishten.org

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