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Stac Levenish or Stac Leibhinis (sometimes simply called Levenish/Leibhinis) is a 
The stack was climbed recreationally in the early 1900s;
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Painting of the Stac
St Kilda, Scotland Stacks of Scotland Landforms of the Outer Hebrides {{WesternIsles-geo-stub
Stac Levenish or Stac Leibhinis (sometimes simply called Levenish/Leibhinis) is a sea stack
A stack or sea stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by wave erosion. Stacks are formed over time by wind and water, processes of coastal geomorpholog ...
in the St Kilda archipelago
An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
Examples of archipelagos include: the Indonesian Archi ...
in Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to th ...
. Lying off Village Bay on Hirta
Hirta ( gd, Hiort) is the largest island in the St Kilda archipelago, on the western edge of Scotland. The names (in Scottish Gaelic) and ''Hirta'' (historically in English) have also been applied to the entire archipelago. Now without a perman ...
, it is part of the rim of an extinct volcano that includes Dùn, Ruaival and Mullach Sgar.
The stack is high. Its north cliff appears to have the profile of a human face, visible when travelling to St Kilda from the east. The skerry
A skerry is a small rocky island, or islet, usually too small for human habitation. It may simply be a rocky reef. A skerry can also be called a low stack (geology), sea stack.
A skerry may have vegetative life such as moss and small, hardy ...
of Na Bodhan lies to the north east.
The stack was climbed recreationally in the early 1900s; Norman Heathcote
John Norman Heathcote (21 June 1863 – 16 July 1946) was a British author, watercolourist and photographer, who wrote the book ''St Kilda'', published in 1900, about the Scottish Hebridean archipelago of St Kilda.
Family and biography
Norman ...
mentions a moderately difficult ascent in 1900, as part of a climbing expedition that also included an ascent of Stac Lee.
See also
*List of outlying islands of Scotland
The outlying islands of Scotland are not part of the larger archipelagos and island groups of Scotland—the Hebrides, the Northern Isles or the Islands of the Forth and Clyde estuaries. None of these islands are currently inhabited and few ...
* Pareidolia
Pareidolia (; ) is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.
Common examples are perceived images of animals, ...
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Painting of the Stac
St Kilda, Scotland Stacks of Scotland Landforms of the Outer Hebrides {{WesternIsles-geo-stub