Brash Island
Brash Island is an isolated island lying 9.3 kilometres (5 nmi) northwest of Darwin Island, off the southeast end of Joinville Island. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1953, and so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee because the island lies in an area where there is a frequent occurrence of "brash ice" (an accumulation of floating ice made up of fragments not more than 2 m across).[1]
  Brash Island Location in Antarctica | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Antarctica |
| Coordinates | 63°24′S 54°55′W |
| Archipelago | Joinville Island group |
| Administration | |
| Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System | |
| Demographics | |
| Population | Uninhabited |
Important Bird Area
The island has been identified as a 63 ha Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports about 166,000 breeding pairs of pygoscelid penguins – probably mainly either Adélie or chinstrap penguins – based on a 2014 estimate from satellite imagery.[2]
See also
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
References
- "Brash Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-08-20.
- "Brash Island, Danger Islands". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Brash Island". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)