Stonington Island [SEP] continent
Stonington Island
Stonington Island is a rocky island lying northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It is long from north-west to south-east and wide, yielding an area of . It was formerly connected by a drifted snow slope to Northeast Glacier on the mainland. Highest elevation is "Anemometer Hill" which rises to .
History.
Stonington Island was chosen as the site for the East Base of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS
the New York-Stonington steamship operation by organizing the subsidiary Stonington Steamship Company, which placed in service the steamers "Stonington" and "Narragansett". A third vessel, the "Rhode Island", was built in 1873. 
The Stonington Steamship Company merged in 1875 with the Providence and New York Steamship Company, primarily a freight carrier between the two named ports, to form the Providence and Stonington Steamship Company. The "Rhode Island" was assigned to the New York-Providence route, joined in 1877 by a