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.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in the Upper New York Bay, United States
  • Also known as: “Azadlıq adası”, “Bedloe’s Island”, “Bedlow Island”, “Bedlow’s Island”, “Đảo Tự do”, “Great Oyster Island”, “Illa de la Llibertat”, “Illa llibertat”, “Islla de la Llibertá”, “Min-ne-ais”, “Minissais”, “Minnisais”, “Ostrov svobody”, “Statue of Liberty World Heritage Site”, “Бедлово острво”, “Бедлоу утравы”, “Востраў Ліберці”, “Зур устрицалар утравы”, “Либерти Айлънд”, “Либерти утравы”, “Мин-не-аис”, “Миннисаис”, “Остров Свободы”, “אי בדלו”, “אי החירות”, “جزیرهٔ آزادی”, “جزیره ازادی”, “جزیرهٔ ازادی”, “เกาะลิเบอร์ตี้”, “リバティー島”, and “自由女神岛”
  • Historically known as: “Bedloe Island” and “Bedloes Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Statue of Liberty and Statue of Liberty Museum.

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The is a colossal neoclassical…

Museum
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The is located on Liberty Island in .

Islet
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is an island in , within the U.S. states of and .

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 . is situated 1½ miles northwest of Liberty Island.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood and planned… is situated 2 miles northeast of Liberty Island.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in western … 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: “Liberty Island”
  • Azerbaijani: “Liberti adası”
  • Basque: “Liberty Island”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Свабоды”
  • Bhojpuri: “लिबर्टी दीप”
  • Breton: “Enez Liberty”
  • Bulgarian: “Либерти”
  • Bulgarian: “Либърти”
  • Catalan: “Liberty Island”
  • Cebuano: “Liberty Island”
  • Chinese: “自由岛”
  • Chinese: “自由島”
  • Czech: “Liberty Island”
  • 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: “Liberty Island”
  • 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: “لیبرتی آیلند”
  • Polish: “Liberty Island”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Wolności”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha da Liberdade”
  • Russian: “Либерти”
  • Rusyn: “Остров Слободы”
  • Serbian: “Ostrvo Slobode”
  • Serbian: “Острво Слободе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Liberty”
  • Slovak: “Liberty Island”
  • Slovenian: “Liberty Island”
  • Spanish: “Isla de la Libertad”
  • Swedish: “Liberty Island”
  • Tajik: “ҷазираи Либертӣ”
  • Tatar: “Азатлык утравы”
  • Thai: “เกาะลิเบอร์ตี”
  • Turkish: “Liberty Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Свободи”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Liberty”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Liberty”
  • Western Panjabi: “لبرٹی جزیرہ”
  • “लिबर्टी दीप”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Colonels Row and Caven Point.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Statue of Liberty National Monument and Liberty State Park Heliport.

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