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{{Short description|Island in the South Shetland Islands}}
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| image_name       = Greenwich-Island-location-map.png
| image_caption    = Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands
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| map_caption      = Location of Express Island 
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| location         = [[South Shetland Islands]]<br />[[Antarctica]]
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| archipelago      = [[South Shetland Islands]]
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| treaty_system    = [[Antarctic Treaty System]]
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'''Express Island''' is a narrow and craggy island, {{convert|1.23|km|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 {{convert|29|ha|acre}}.<ref name=area>L.L. Ivanov. [[:commons:File:Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg|Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.]] Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. {{ISBN|978-954-92032-9-5}} (First edition 2009. {{ISBN|978-954-92032-6-4}})</ref>

It was named by the [[UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee]] in 1977 after the American [[schooner]] ''Express'' (Capt. [[Ephraim Williams (mariner)|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.<ref name=gnis/>

== See also ==
* [[Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica]]
* [[Greenwich Island (South Shetland Islands)]]
* [[List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands#List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S|List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S]]
* [[Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research]]
* [[Territorial claims in Antarctica]]

==Map==
* L.L. Ivanov et al. [[:commons:Image:Livingston-Greenwich-map.jpg|Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands]]. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.

==References==
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<ref name=gnis>{{cite gnis | type = antarid | id = 4705| name = Express Island | access-date = 2012-03-12}}</ref>
}}

==External links==
* [http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/ SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer].

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[[File:Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.]]

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