Evening view west from the Ness of Westshore - geograph

Langa (

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlemen ...

: ''Langey'' ) is the collective name for two uninhabited islands off Hildasay, in Shetland, Scotland. The islands are connected by a

tombolo A tombolo is a sandy or shingle isthmus. A tombolo, from the Italian ', meaning 'pillow' or 'cushion', and sometimes translated incorrectly as ''ayre'' (an ayre is a shingle beach of any kind), is a deposition landform by which an island becom ...

and are separated at high tide. It is not to be confused with the numerous islands called "Linga" in Shetland (- for which see Linga (disambiguation) or Lunga).

History

The name probably derives from ''langey'',

for "long island". The island was a separate

croft Croft may refer to: Occupations * Croft (land), a small area of land, often with a crofter's dwelling * Crofting, small-scale food production * Bleachfield, an open space used for the bleaching of fabric, also called a croft Locations In the Uni ...

during the 19th century. It had a recorded population of nine in 1841, and 13 in 1881, but was deserted in the 1890s.

References

Uninhabited islands of Shetland {{Shetland-geo-stub