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62° 36′ S 60° 30′ U / 62.600 °S, 60.500 °U (mapo)
La insulo Livingstono aŭ Livingston (historia rusa nomo Smolensk, 62° 36′ S 60° 30′ U / 62.600 °S, 60.500 °U (mapo)) estas insulo de Antarkto en la South Shetland Islands, Western Antarctica lying between Greenwich Island and Snow Islands. This island was known to sailors as early as 1819, and the name Livingston, although of unknown derivation, has been well established in international usage since the 1820s.
Geography
Livingston is situated in the Southern Ocean Ŝablono:Convert/km to the northwest of Cape Roquemaurel on the Antarctic mainland, Ŝablono:Convert/km to the south-southeast of Cape Horn in South America, Ŝablono:Convert/km to the southeast of the Diego Ramirez Islands (the southernmost land of South America), Ŝablono:Convert/km due south of the Falkland Islands, Ŝablono:Convert/km to the southwest of South Georgia Island, and Ŝablono:Convert/km from the South Pole.
The island is part of the South Shetlands archipelago, an islands chain extending over Ŝablono:Convert/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. The South Shetlands cover a total land area of Ŝablono:Convert/km2