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FROM the gale-blasted cliffs of the North Atlantic to the balmy shores of the Indian Ocean, Lonely Planet Magazine contributors tell us about the islands they would most like to find themselves marooned on.

History

St Kilda, Scotland

– Ben Fogle presents Lonely Planet’s Year of Adventures on the BBC.

St Kilda is a windswept archipelago, 65km west of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides across the North Atlantic Ocean. The islands have remained uninhabited for the past 82 years, after the last St Kildans were evacuated.

Getting there isn’t easy but it’s certainly worth the effort.

Looking up at its vertiginous cliffs from the foaming sea is overwhelming: rolling banks of sea mist tumble down from the slopes of the interior and birds wheel overhead.

St Kilda is also home to the ghostly remains of a village on the island of Hirta. It is very strange to walk among the houses where a once-thriving community lived.

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