Express Island
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Express Island () is a narrow craggy island, 0.6 miles (1.0 km) long, lying close offshore of northwest Greenwich Island, due north of Greaves Peak. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) 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.
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This article incorporates text from Express Island, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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