The Cheynies are a group of reefs and small islands, between Oxna

Oxna

Oxna is one of the Scalloway Islands, lying north west of Burra in Shetland, Scotland. Oxna has an area of 68 ha .The island has been uninhabited since World War I, but there is a house which is still used as a holiday home.....

 and Hildasay

Hildasay

Hildasay , also known as Hildisay, is an uninhabited island off the west coast of the Shetland Mainland.-Geography and geology:...

 in the Shetland Islands

Shetland Islands

Shetland is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies north and east of mainland Great Britain. The islands lie some to the northeast of Orkney and southeast of the Faroe Islands and form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. The total...

. They have been considerably eroded in the historic past, and some of the islands are still connected at low tides. They are about 20ha in extent.http://shetlopedia.com/Cheynies

Wreck

In September, 2005, the ship Anglian Sovereign collided with the islands
http://www.sepa.org.uk/news/releases/view.asp?id=369&y=2006, losing vast amounts of diesel that contaminated over 200 birds. She was heading for Scalloway

Scalloway

Scalloway is the largest settlement on the North Atlantic coast of Mainland, Shetland with a population of approximately 812, at the 2001 census...

Harbour. The skipper was given six months custodial sentence in non-consecutive terms for pollution. He was the first person in Scotland to be charged with this.http://www.sepa.org.uk/news/releases/view.asp?id=369&y=2006