Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty was a landmark located on an island in the river contiguous to New York City.

The Doctor was only known to have visited it in situ once. In 1930, the Doctor's TARDIS materialised at the base of the statue, and remained parked there while the Doctor and Martha fought an attempt by the Cult of Skaro to rebuild the Dalek race. In showing off the statue to Martha, the Doctor quoted from the statue's famous inscription, saying, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free." (DW: Daleks in Manhattan)

The Doctor occasionally encountered it at different locations, or at least referenced its iconic design, at other points in his life. In his fifth body, he compared a statue of the Divine Empress of the Earth Empire to the Statue of Liberty on Earth. (MA: Cold Fusion) In his eighth incarnation the Doctor fought the Threshold, who had taken the Statue of Liberty and other items of Earth culture to the town of Wormwood on the Moon. (DWM: Wormwood) At another point in his eighth life, the Doctor discovered that Zarodnix had stolen the Statue in order to have it installed atop the palace of Morbius on Karn. (BFA: The Vengeance of Morbius) During his tenth life, probably after his 1930 encounter with the real object, the Doctor noted that one of the features of the Gameslaves' pinball table was a life-sized Statue of Liberty. (DWAM: Pinball Wizard)


 * The only filmed encounter of a TARDIS crew with the statue, Daleks in Manhattan'', was silent as to the precise real-world location of the island on which the statue is located. The Doctor's exclamation, "Smell that Atlantic breeze!" and James Strong's camera angles — which ignored the statue's greater proximity to New Jersey — gave the impression that it was perhaps in the open Atlantic Ocean.  In fact, of course, it sits in the Hudson River on Liberty Island, whose administration is shared jointly by the states of New York and New Jersey.  The statue itself and the park surrounding it are, however, owned by the US Federal government.  Most Americans outside of New Jersey, however, believe it to be simply a part of New York City, and the test for American naturalized citizenship judges this assessment to be correct, while also accepting "New Jersey" and "on the Hudson River" as answers to the question, "Where is the Statue of Liberty?"