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{{Short description|One of the Shetland Islands}}
{{Other uses|List of islands called Linga}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox Scottish island
|Image=East Linga - geograph.org.uk - 1600740.jpg
|ImageCaption=East Linga viewed from the south
|location_map=Scotland Shetland
|coordinates = {{coord|60.34|-0.88|display=inline}}
|GridReference=HU615623
|celtic name=
|norse name= Possibly Lingey
|meaning of name= "east heather island"
|area=  {{convert|30|ha|sqmi}}
|area rank=
|highest elevation=  {{convert|27|m|ft|0}}
|Population= nil
|population rank=
|main settlement=
|island group= [[Shetland]]
|local authority=[[Shetland Islands|Shetland]]
|references=<ref name=OS>[http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/getamap/ "Get-a-map"] [[Ordnance Survey]]</ref>}}
'''East Linga''' is one of the [[Shetland|Shetland Islands]]. It lies between [[Whalsay]] (to the west), and [[Grif Skerry]] to the east.

==Geography and geology==
The bed rock is [[gneiss]] with [[granite]] veins.

There are many skerries and rocks in the channel south of Whalsay and East Linga, some of which have disputed names, i.e. one local version, and a different one on Admiralty Charts and/or [[Ordnance Survey]] maps. For example, "Muckla Billan" is listed on the latter, but is known locally as "Peerie Fladdacap".<ref name=OS/><ref name=HS>{{Haswell-Smith|455}}</ref>

In December 2008 the corpses of eighteen [[grey seal]]s were discovered on the island, some of them apparently clubbed to death. Police have charged a forty-seven-year-old man in connection with the discovery. According to [[Scottish Natural Heritage]], about thirty grey seals are born on East Linga each year.<ref>[http://www.shetlandmarine.com/2008/07%20Environment/man_charged_with_seal_slaughter.htm "Man charged with seal slaughter "] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220140535/http://www.shetlandmarine.com/2008/07%20Environment/man_charged_with_seal_slaughter.htm |date=20 December 2008 }} ''Shetland Marine News''. Retrieved 14 December 2008.</ref>

The smaller [[Calf of Linga]] lies to the north and is connected to East Linga at low tide.<ref name=OS/> [[West Linga]] lies on the other side of [[Whalsay]].

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category-inline|East Linga}}

{{East Shetland}}

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[[Category:Uninhabited islands of Shetland]]


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