Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Express Island (GBR) | 62° 26' 30.6" S | 59° 59' 21.8" W | Island |
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Name ID: 108741
Place ID: 4418
off NW end of Greenwich Island, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956; following field work by BAS, 1975-76, named after the American schooner Express (Capt. Ephraim Williams), one of the ships in the sealing fleet of E. Fanning and B. Pendleton from Stonington, which operated in this area, 1820-21 (APC, 1980, p.3). |
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| Express Island (USA) | 62° 27' 00.0" S | 59° 59' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 124954
Place ID: 4418
Narrow craggy island, 0.6 mi long, lying close offshore of NW Greenwich Island, due N of Greaves Peak. Named by the 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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