A UK Island Left Empty by Disease

The village remains.

A settlement in Scotland was left empty. The island of Hirta was home to people for 2,000 years, but they left in the 1930s due to health concerns.

The island is very isolated and can only be reached by boat.

Hirta is one of 40 islands and has many seabirds. The people who lived there used these birds for food and trade.

They sold all parts of the birds.

Today, the people are gone, but some old buildings remain.

These buildings are on what was the main street, now with only sheep.

Life on the island was very hard with bad weather and few resources.

The island was left in 1930.

People kept animals inside to stay warm in winter.

At its peak, 112 people lived on Hirta, but the number went down.

The island had very limited medical care, and visitors brought new illnesses.

In the 1930s, after a woman died from illnesses that could have been treated on the mainland, the people decided to leave.

The people were taken to mainland Scotland by boat in August.

Before leaving, they left food and a bible in each home.

The last person who lived on the island died in 2016.

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