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 of Brash Island
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

1. "Brash Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
2. "Brash Island, Danger Islands". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2020.

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Brash Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.