Express Island


Express Island is a narrow craggy island, 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.
It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 after the American schooner Express, one of the ships in the sealing fleet of Edmund Fanning and Benjamin Pendleton from Stonington, Connecticut, which operated in this area, 1820–21.

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