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“The formal British Government submission to UNESCO had stated, ‘The fact that the island community held out until its eventual evacuation in 1930 is a remarkable enough story. But what is most tragic is that a community which had survived the remoteness and physical hardships for over 2000 years should finally succumb to the influences of modern civilization.”
― Tom Steel, The Life and Death of St. Kilda: The moving story of a vanished island community