Linga, Samphrey
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Linga is one of the Shetland Islands
, in Yell Sound
.
and Firths Voe, in the West. Fish Holm
is to the North and Lunna Ness
to the east.
Linga is made of coarse gneiss
, with some granite
. It is about 43 ha in area and 40m at its highest point.
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...
, in Yell Sound
Yell Sound
Yell Sound is the strait running between Yell and Mainland, Shetland. It is the boundary between the Mainland and the North Isles and it contains many small islands. Sullom Voe, on the shores of which is a substantial oil terminal, is an arm of Yell Sound....
.
Geography and geology
Linga is an extremely common name in Shetland, meaning heather island. This Linga is not far from FirthFirth, Shetland
Note: "Firth" is a common name for sounds in ShetlandFirth is a village in the north east of Mainland, Shetland, in the parish of Delting, not far from Mossbank. It is about 27 miles from Lerwick.-History:...
and Firths Voe, in the West. Fish Holm
Fish Holm
Fish Holm is a small island, east of Mainland, Shetland. It is near the village of Mossbank.It is at its highest point, and a mile south of Samphrey in Yell Sound.- References :*...
is to the North and Lunna Ness
Lunna Ness
Lunna Ness is a peninsula in the north east of Mainland, Shetland, in the parish of Lunnasting near Vidlin. The island of Lunna Holm is nearby. The Shetland Bus operation during WWII used this area as a base....
to the east.
Linga is made of coarse gneiss
Gneiss
Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks.-Etymology:...
, with some granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
. It is about 43 ha in area and 40m at its highest point.