Liège Island

Liège Island

Liège Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	64°01′10″S 61°56′00″W / 64.01944°S 61.93333°W / -64.01944; -61.93333Coordinates: 64°01′10″S 61°56′00″W / 64.01944°S 61.93333°W / -64.01944; -61.93333
Archipelago	Palmer Archipelago
Length	18.15 km (11.278 mi)
Width	7.3 km (4.54 mi)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Liège Island (in English also Liege Island) is an island, 17 kilometres (9 nmi) long and 5.6 kilometres (3 nmi) wide, lying immediately northeast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, and separated from Hoseason Island and Christiania Islands to the northeast by Croker Passage. Its interior is occupied by Brugmann Mountains.

Liège Island is located at

64°01′10″S 61°56′00″W / 64.01944°S 61.93333°W / -64.01944; -61.93333. British mapping in 1978 and 1980.

The island was charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–1899) under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it for the province of Liège, Belgium.^[1]

Maps[]

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1980.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

See also[]

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• Mount Pierre (Palmer Archipelago)
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

References[]

External links[]

• U.S. Geological Survey, Atlas of Antarctic Research

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Liège Island". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)