Express Island
Express Island is a narrow and 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 |Edmund Fanning] and Benjamin Pendleton from Stonington, Connecticut, which operated in this area, 1820–21.
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.