Liège Island

{{Short description|Island off Antarctica}}

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| image_map = Liège Island, Palmer Archipelago, BAT.svg

| image_map_caption = Location of Liège Island

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| location = Antarctica

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| archipelago = Palmer Archipelago

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| length_km = 18.15

| width_km = 7.3

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| population = Uninhabited

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| country = None

| treaty_system = Antarctic Treaty System

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Liège Island (in English also Liege Island) is an island, {{convert|9|nmi|km|disp=flip}} long and {{convert|3|nmi|km|disp=flip}} 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 {{coord|64|01|10|S|61|56|00|W|}}. 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.[https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=128015 Liège Island.] SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

Maps

  • [http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=3198 British Antarctic Territory.] Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
  • [http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=3217 British Antarctic Territory.] Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1980.
  • [http://www.add.scar.org 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

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