Express Island

Earth 62°26′35″S 59°59′23″W / 62.44306°S 59.98972°W / -62.44306; -59.98972ArchipelagoSouth Shetland IslandsArea29 ha (72 acres)Length1 km (0.6 mi)AdministrationAdministered under the Antarctic Treaty SystemDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

Express Island is a narrow and craggy island, 1.23 kilometres (0.76 mi) long, lying close offshore of northwest Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated due north of Greaves Peak, forming most of the east side of Razlog Cove. Surface area 29 hectares (72 acres).^[1]

It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 after the American schooner Express (Capt. Ephraim Williams), one of the ships in the sealing fleet of Edmund Fanning and Benjamin Pendleton from Stonington, Connecticut, which operated in this area, 1820–21.^[2]

See also

• Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
• Greenwich Island (South Shetland Islands)
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

Map

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.

References

External links

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Express Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.