Stac Levenish Explained

Location Map:Scotland Outer Hebrides
Coordinates:57.792°N -8.51°W
Gridreference:NF133966
Official Name:Stac Levenish
Celtic Name:Stac Leibhinis
Area:24280-1NaN-1
Highest Elevation:620NaN0
Island Group:St Kilda
Local Authority:Outer Hebrides
References:[1]

Stac Levenish or Stac Leibhinis (sometimes simply called Levenish/Leibhinis) is a sea stack in the St Kilda archipelago in Scotland. Lying 2.5frac=4NaNfrac=4 off Village Bay on Hirta, it is part of the rim of an extinct volcano that includes Dùn, Ruaival and Mullach Sgar.

The stack is 620NaN0 high. Its north cliff appears to have the profile of a human face, visible when travelling to St Kilda from the east. The skerry of Na Bodhan lies to the north east.

The stack was climbed recreationally in the early 1900s; Norman Heathcote mentions a moderately difficult ascent in 1900, as part of a climbing expedition that also included an ascent of Stac Lee.[2]

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57.7922°N -8.5103°W

Notes and References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 18 Sound of Harris (North Uist, Taransay & St Kilda). 9780319231272 . Ordnance Survey. 2008.
  2. Heathcote . Norman . Climbing in St Kilda . Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal . 6 . 146–151 . . 1901 . 8 February 2009.