Stac Levenish

{{Short description|Sea stack in Scotland}}

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{{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

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|area= {{convert|24280|m2|sqft|-1|abbr=on}}

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|highest elevation= {{convert|62|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}

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|island group=St Kilda

|local authority=Outer Hebrides

|references={{NRS1C}}{{Haswell-Smith}}{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 18 Sound of Harris (North Uist, Taransay & St Kilda)|ISBN= 9780319231272 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2008}}

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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.

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 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.{{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}}

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