Stac Levenish

{{Short description|Sea stack in Scotland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox Scottish island |Image = Staclevenish.jpg |ImageCaption = Stac Levenish cliff's face silhouette |location_map=Scotland Outer Hebrides |caption=Stac Levenish shown within the Outer Hebrides |coordinates = {{coord|57.792|-8.510|display=inline}} |GridReference=NF133966 |official_name= Stac Levenish |celtic name= Stac Leibhinis |norse name= |meaning of name= |area= {{convert|24280|m2|sqft|-1|abbr=on}} |area rank= |highest elevation= {{convert|62|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} |population rank= |main settlement= |island group=St Kilda |local authority=Outer Hebrides |references=<ref>{{NRS1C}}</ref><ref name=Smith>{{Haswell-Smith}}</ref><ref name=OS18>{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 18 ''Sound of Harris (North Uist, Taransay & St Kilda)''|ISBN= 9780319231272 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2008}}</ref> }} thumb|The St Kilda archipelago

'''Stac Levenish''' or '''Stac Leibhinis''' (sometimes simply called '''Levenish'''/'''Leibhinis''') is a sea stack in the St Kilda archipelago in Scotland. Lying {{convert|2.5|km|nmi|frac=4|abbr=off}} off Village Bay on Hirta, it is part of the rim of an extinct volcano that includes Dùn, Ruaival and Mullach Sgar.<ref name=Smith/>

The stack is {{convert|62|m|ft|0|abbr=out}} 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.

[[File:Dun, St Kilda.jpg|thumb|Dùn from Ruaival with Stac Levenish in the background at left.]]

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. <ref>{{cite journal | last = Heathcote | first = Norman | title = Climbing in St Kilda | journal = Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal | volume = 6 | issue = | pages = 146–151 | publisher = Scottish Mountaineering Club | date = 1901 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LhZB5an6mnwC | accessdate = 8 February 2009}}</ref>

{{clear left}} There is another smaller and unnamed rock on Stac Levenish' south-west. It is visible on Google Maps.

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070827121927/http://www.jameswarwick.co.uk/warwick-im/action/viewImage?id=458 Pictures] * [http://www.flowerseast.com/Prints_Exhibitions_Large.asp?Exhibition=07FGSPP&GL=3 Painting of the Stac]

Category:St Kilda, Scotland Category:Stacks of Scotland Category:Landforms of the Outer Hebrides