Linga Sound is the strait between the islands of

Whalsay Whalsay ( sco, Whalsa; non, Hvalsey or ''Hvals-øy'', meaning 'Whale Island') is the sixth largest of the Shetland Islands in the north of Scotland. Geography Whalsay, also known as "The Bonnie Isle", is a peat-covered island in the Shetland I ...

and

West Linga West Linga is an uninhabited island located between Mainland and Whalsay in Shetland, Scotland. Geography and geology West Linga is a long narrow island covered in rough heath. It is separated from Whalsay by Linga Sound, and Lunning on Ma ...

in the

Shetland Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about to the no ...

islands of Scotland. The sound has a depth of . The narrowest width is between the contours. The sound is the channel most often used by large vessels. The tidal stream running south through the sound starts about four and a half hours before high water at

Lerwick Lerwick (; non, Leirvik; nrn, Larvik) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick had a population of about 7,000 residents in 2010. Centred off the north coast of the Scottish mainland ...

, and the stream starts running north about two hours after high water at Lerwick. The maximum rate is 6 knots. The sound has several islets. The most notable is the

Skate of Marrister The Skate of Marrister is a flat ledge that extends about from the western shore of Whalsay, in the Shetland islands of Scotland. It is slightly more than north-north-west from Symbister Ness off the village of Marrister, in Linga Sound (Shetla ...

. A lighthouse on Suther Ness below Brough stands at the northern entrance into Linga Sound. File:Westlinga.jpg, Looking SSW across the Bight of Cudda on the west of the sound towards the Head of Berg on West Linga

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