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Express Island

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Geography
Location	South Shetland Islands Antarctica
Coordinates	Earth 62°26′35″S 59°59′23″W / 62.44306°S 59.98972°W / -62.44306; -59.98972
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Area	29 ha (72 acres)
Length	1 km (0.6 mi)
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Express Island is a narrow 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).

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.

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.