List of islands called Linga

List of islands called Linga

This list of islands called Linga provides and index for islands in Scotland with this and similar names.

Linga (Northern Isles) (sometimes Lingay and Lingeigh in the Hebrides) is an extremely common name for Scottish islands and occurs most frequently in Shetland. It is derived from the old Norse "lyngey" meaning "heather island". The Scottish Gaelic equivalent is "Fraoch Eilean" or "Eilean an Fhraoich".

hetland

* Linga, Hildasay
** Hogg of Linga
* Linga, Muckle Roe
* Linga, Samphrey
* Linga, Vaila
**Linga Skerries
* Linga, Vementry
* Linga, Yell (near Gutcher and Bluemull Sound)
* Off Whalsay
** West Linga
*** Calf of Linga, West Linga
*** Little Linga, West Linga
****Calf of Little Linga
** East Linga
*** Calf of Linga, East Linga
* Linga Skerries in South Nesting Bay off Mainland, Shetland
* Urie Lingey off Fetlar

Orkney

* Off Auskerry
** Linga Holm (off St Catherine's Bay)
** Little Linga, Auskerry (off Links Ness)

Hebrides

* Lingay, Fiaray north of Barra
* Lingay, Killegray south east of Killegray in the Sound of Harris
* Lingay, Pabbay in the Bishop's Isles, south of Barra
* Lingay, Wiay off Benbecula

* Langay or Langaigh, an islet north of Lingay, Killegray and east of Killegray in the Sound of Harris
* Lingay Fhada north of Fuiay and Barra, and south west of Hellisay
* Garbh Lingay also north of Fuiay and Barra, and south west of Hellisay
* Lingeam (from Norse "Lyng Holm")

imilar names

There are also a number of Scottish islands with similar names e.g.
* Langa, Shetland, off Hildasay, Shetland.
* Longa, near Gairloch in Wester Ross.
* Longa Skerry, off West Linga, Shetland.
* Longay off Skye
* Luing in the Slate Islands
* "Luinn", (the Gaelic for Luing).
* Lunga (Treshnish Isles) off Mull.
* Lunga, Firth of Lorn in the Slate Islands, Argyll.
* Lunna Holm off Yell, Shetland.

ee also

*Fraoch Eilean
*List of islands in Scotland

References

*Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004) "The Scottish Islands". Edinburgh. Canongate. ISBN 1841954543


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