Linga (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Linga islands of Scotland 1.1 Shetland 1.2 Orkney 1.3 Hebrides 1.4 See also

Linga may mean:

• Lingam, symbol of Shiva.

• Linga, Victoria, a town in Australia

• A Scottish island (see below)

Not to be confused with:

• Lingga Island, Indonesia
• Lingga Islands, Indonesia

[edit] Linga islands of Scotland

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

[edit] Shetland

• 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

[edit] Orkney

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

[edit] 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")

[edit] See also

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.