Liberty Island

Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the northeastern United States. Its most notable feature is the , a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in 1886.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in the Upper New York Bay, United States
  • Also known as: “Bedlow Island”, “Bedlow’s Island”, “Great Oyster Island”, “Min-ne-ais”, “Minissais”, “Minnisais”, and “Statue of Liberty World Heritage Site”
  • Historically known as: “Bedloe Island” and “Bedloes Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Statue of Liberty and Statue of Liberty Museum.

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The is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island, part of , in . The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and its metal framework built by Gustave Eiffel.

Museum
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The is located on Liberty Island in . The museum opened on May 16, 2019, and is focused on the creation, meaning, and history of the , a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi which the people of France gave to the people of the United States in 1886.

Islet
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is an island in , within the U.S. states of and . Owned by the U.S. government, was once the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Communipaw and Battery Park City.

Village
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is a neighborhood in in , in the U.S. state of . It is located west of and east of Bergen Hill, and the site of one of the earliest European settlements in North America. is situated 1½ miles northwest of Liberty Island.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood and planned community at the southern tip of in . The neighborhood is situated along the waterfront, and separated the and by the West Side Highway. is situated 2 miles northeast of Liberty Island.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in western , , United States, within the area once known as . It is located on a peninsula projecting into the Upper New York Bay and is bounded by the Gowanus Expressway and the neighborhood on the northeast, on the east, and the Upper New York Bay on the west and south. is situated 2 miles southeast of Liberty Island.

Liberty Island

Latitude
40.68995° or 40° 41′ 24″ north
Longitude
-74.04526° or 74° 2′ 43″ west
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
Open location code
87G7MXQ3+XV
Geo­Names ID
5124330
Wiki­data ID
Q319821
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Liberty Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة الحرية”
  • Armenian: “Ազատության կղզի”
  • Asturian: “Islla de la Llibertá”
  • Asturian: “Liberty Island”
  • Azerbaijani: “Azadlıq adası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Liberti adası”
  • Basque: “Liberty Island”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Ліберці”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Свабоды”
  • Bhojpuri: “लिबर्टी दीप”
  • Breton: “Enez Liberty”
  • Bulgarian: “Либерти Айлънд”
  • Bulgarian: “Либерти”
  • Bulgarian: “Либърти”
  • Catalan: “Illa de la Llibertat”
  • Catalan: “Illa llibertat”
  • Catalan: “Liberty Island”
  • Cebuano: “Liberty Island”
  • Chinese: “Liberty Tó”
  • Chinese: “自由女神岛”
  • Chinese: “自由岛”
  • Chinese: “自由島”
  • Czech: “Liberty Island”
  • Czech: “Ostrov svobody”
  • Danish: “Liberty Island”
  • Dutch: “Liberty Island”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Libereco”
  • Estonian: “Liberty Island”
  • Fijian: “Yanuyanu o Galala”
  • Finnish: “Liberty Island”
  • French: “Liberty Island”
  • Galician: “Illa da Liberdade”
  • German: “Bedloe’s Island”
  • German: “Liberty Island”
  • Hebrew: “אי בדלו”
  • Hebrew: “אי החירות”
  • Hebrew: “ליברטי איילנד”
  • Hebrew: “ליברטי”
  • Hindi: “लिबर्टी द्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Liberty Island”
  • Icelandic: “Liberty Island”
  • Ido: “Insulo Liberty”
  • Indonesian: “Liberty Island”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Liberty”
  • Irish: “Liberty Island”
  • Italian: “Liberty Island”
  • Japanese: “リバティー島”
  • Japanese: “リバティ島”
  • Javanese: “Pulo Liberty”
  • Korean: “리버티섬”
  • Latin: “Liberty Island”
  • Latvian: “Brīvības sala”
  • Malay: “Pulau Liberty”
  • Marathi: “लिबर्टी आयलंड”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Liberty Tó”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Liberty Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Liberty Island”
  • Norwegian: “Liberty Island”
  • Persian: “جزیره آزادی”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ آزادی”
  • Persian: “جزیره ازادی”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ ازادی”
  • Persian: “لیبرتی آیلند”
  • Polish: “Liberty Island”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Wolności”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha da Liberdade”
  • Portuguese: “Liberty Island”
  • Russian: “Либерти”
  • Russian: “Остров Свободы”
  • Rusyn: “Остров Слободы”
  • Serbian: “Ostrvo Slobode”
  • Serbian: “Бедлово острво”
  • Serbian: “Острво Слободе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Liberty”
  • Slovak: “Liberty Island”
  • Slovenian: “Liberty Island”
  • Spanish: “Isla de la Libertad”
  • Spanish: “Liberty Island”
  • Swedish: “Bedloes Island”
  • Swedish: “Liberty Island”
  • Tajik: “ҷазираи Либертӣ”
  • Tatar: “Азатлык утравы”
  • Tatar: “Бедлоу утравы”
  • Tatar: “Зур устрицалар утравы”
  • Tatar: “Либерти утравы”
  • Tatar: “Мин-не-аис”
  • Tatar: “Миннисаис”
  • Thai: “Liberty Island”
  • Thai: “เกาะลิเบอร์ตี”
  • Thai: “เกาะลิเบอร์ตี้”
  • Turkish: “Liberty Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Свободи”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Liberty”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Tự do”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Liberty”
  • Western Panjabi: “لبرٹی جزیرہ”
  • “Bedloe’s Island”
  • “लिबर्टी दीप”

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