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".

[1][2] In December 2008 the corpses of eighteen grey seals 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.