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Linga

#6817 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Linga

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Linga is one of the Shetland Islands, in Yell Sound. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 60°26'25"N, 1°9'9"W

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ScotlandUnited Kingdom

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Linga – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Old Haa Museum, Lunna Holm, Lamba, Whalsay Parish Church.

5.1 miNE
Natural history museum, Museum
Old Haa Museum, Yell
129 min walk • The Old Haa of Brough in located in Burravoe, Yell, Shetland, Scotland. Built for Robert Tyrie, a merchant, in 1672, houses the local museum for Burravoe and Yell.
3.9 miE
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Lunna Holm
99 min walk • Lunna Holm is a small island near Lunna Ness, in the Shetland Islands. It is 27 metres at its highest point.
7.1 miNW
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Lamba
182 min walk • Lamba is an uninhabited island in Yell Sound in Shetland. It lies 1.5 km north of the entrance to the Sullom Voe inlet and 1.4 kilometres east of the Mainland coastline near Ollaberry. Rising 35 metres above sea level, it has an area of 43 hectares.
7.3 miSE
Church
Whalsay Parish Church, Whalsay
185 min walk • Whalsay Parish Church or Whalsay Kirk is a Church of Scotland parish church on the island of Whalsay, Shetland Islands, Scotland. It lies to the north of the village of Brough, on the southern part of a promontory known as Kirk Ness, connected to the mainland by a neck of land.
5 miN
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Uynarey
128 min walk • Uynarey is one of the Shetland islands in Yell Sound, just to the north of Bigga, and east of Brother Island. It is an RSPB reserve. The name comes from the Norse for "venerated island", and this may reflect a Culdee connection.
0.8 miNE
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Fish Holm
21 min walk • Fish Holm is a small island, 1.5 miles east of Mainland, Shetland. It is near the village of Mossbank. It is 20 metres at its highest point, and a mile south of Samphrey in Yell Sound.
5.6 miNW
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Little Roe
144 min walk • Little Roe is an island in Yell Sound in the Shetland...
6.6 miSE
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West Linga
170 min walk • West Linga is an uninhabited island located between Mainland and Whalsay in Shetland, Scotland.
3.1 miNE
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Orfasay
80 min walk • Orfasay is one of the Shetland Islands.
1.9 miN
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Samphrey
50 min walk • Samphrey is an uninhabited island in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. One of Fair Isle's old names is "Friðarey" which is of similar origin.
4.1 miN
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Bigga
106 min walk • Bigga is an uninhabited island in the Yell Sound between the Mainland and Yell in Shetland, Scotland.