Linga (disambiguation)

Linga may mean:

• Lingam, phallic 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

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".

Shetland

• Linga, Hildasay
  • Hogg of Linga
• Linga, Muckle Roe, Scotland
• 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
• Lingay, Killegray off Killegray and Ensay
• Lingay, Pabbay
• Lingay, Wiay off Benbecula
• Off Fuiay and Barra
  • Lingay Fhada
  • Garbh Lingay
• Lingeam (from Norse "Lyng Holm")

There are also a number of Scottish islands with similar names e.g.

Langa, 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.