Liberty Island

Liberty Island
Liberty Island
	Liberty Island in December 2014 with Jersey City in the background
Location	Upper New York Bay
Coordinates	40°41′20″N 74°02′40″W / 40.68889°N 74.04444°W
Area	14.717 acres (59,560 m2)
Governing body	National Park Service
U.S. National Monument
Designated	October 15, 1924; September 7, 1937;
Designated by	Calvin Coolidge; Franklin D. Roosevelt;
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Official name	Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty Island
Designated	October 15, 1966
Reference no.	66000058
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Official name	Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty Island
Designated	May 27, 1971
Reference no.	1535
New York City Landmark
Type	Individual
Designated	September 14, 1976
	Location in Upper New York Bay Liberty Island (New York) Liberty Island (Hudson County, New Jersey) Liberty Island (the United States)

Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States. Its most notable feature is the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in 1886. The island also contains the Statue of Liberty Museum, which opened in 2019 and exhibits the statue's original torch.

Long known as Bedloe's Island, it was renamed by an act of the United States Congress in 1956. Part of the State of New York, the island is an exclave of the New York City borough of Manhattan, surrounded by the waters of Jersey City, New Jersey.

^ "Proclamation 1950: Enlarging the Statue of Liberty National Monument New York". Code of Federal Regulations: Title 3—The President 1936–1938 Compilation. National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 1968. pp. 120–121.
^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Hudson County". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 2, 2014.
^ "Early History of Bedloe's Island". Statue of Liberty Historical Handbook. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 28, 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2010.
^ Sutherland, Cara A. (2003). The Statue of Liberty. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. ISBN 0760738904. Retrieved June 18, 2016.