Livingston Island (62°36′ S 060°30′ W) is 61 km (38 mi) long and from 3 to 32 km (2 to 20 mi) wide, lying between Greenwich and Snow Islands in the South Shetland Islands. This island was known to sealers as early as 1820, and the name Livingston has been well established in international usage for over 100 years. Snow Island (62º47´S 061º23´W) is a completely ice-covered island, 16 km (10 mi) long and 8 km (5 mi) wide, lying 6 km (4 mi) southwest of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. ... The South Shetland Islands are a chain of islands in the Southern Ocean about 120 kilometres off the coast of Antarctica. ...
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The Island is part of the South Shetlands archipelago, an islands chain extending over 500 km in east-northeast to west-southwest direction, and separated from the nearby Antarctic Peninsula by Bransfield Strait, and from South America by the Drake Passage.
Livingston is separated from the neighbouring Greenwich Island to the east and Snow Island to the west-southwest respectively by McFarlane Strait and by Morton Strait.
The Island is extending 73 km from Start Point in the west to Renier Point in the east, its width varying from 5 km at the neck between South Bay and Hero Bay to 34 km between Botev Point to the south and Williams Point to the north, with surface area of 974 km².
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