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 Statue of Liberty, a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in 1886.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Upper New York Bay, United States
- Also known as: “Bedloe’s Island”, “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.
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City, U.S.
Statue of Liberty Museum
Museum
Photo: Epicgenius, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Statue of Liberty Museum is located on Liberty Island in New York City. The museum opened on May 16, 2019, and is focused on the creation, meaning, and history of the Statue of Liberty, a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi which the people of France gave to the people of the United States in 1886.
Ellis Island
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor, within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. Owned by the U.S. government, Ellis Island 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.
Communipaw
Village
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Communipaw is a neighborhood in Jersey City in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located west of Liberty State Park and east of Bergen Hill, and the site of one of the earliest European settlements in North America. Communipaw is situated 1½ miles northwest of Liberty Island.
Battery Park City
Neighborhood
Photo: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Battery Park City is a neighborhood and planned community at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City. The neighborhood is situated along the Hudson River waterfront, and separated the Financial District and Tribeca by the West Side Highway. Battery Park City is situated 2 miles northeast of Liberty Island.
Red Hook
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Red Hook is a neighborhood in western Brooklyn, New York City, United States, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. It is located on a peninsula projecting into the Upper New York Bay and is bounded by the Gowanus Expressway and the Carroll Gardens neighborhood on the northeast, Gowanus Canal on the east, and the Upper New York Bay on the west and south. Red Hook is situated 2 miles southeast of Liberty Island.
Liberty Island
- Categories: heritage site, World Heritage Site, and landform
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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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: “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: “Bedloe’s Island”
- 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: “Bedloe’s Island”
- Czech: “Liberty Island”
- Czech: “Ostrov svobody”
- Danish: “Bedloe’s Island”
- Danish: “Liberty Island”
- Dutch: “Liberty Island”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Libereco”
- Estonian: “Liberty Island”
- 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: “Bedloe’s Island”
- Slovak: “Liberty Island”
- Slovenian: “Bedloe’s Island”
- Slovenian: “Liberty Island”
- Spanish: “Isla de la Libertad”
- Spanish: “Liberty Island”
- Swedish: “Bedloe’s 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”
- “लिबर्टी दीप”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Colonels Row and Caven Point.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Statue of Liberty National Monument and Liberty State Park Heliport.
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