Brash Island Explained

Brash Island
Map:Antarctica
Location:Antarctica
Archipelago:Joinville Island group
Population:Uninhabited
Country:None
Treaty System:Antarctic Treaty System

Brash Island is an isolated island lying 5nmi 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).

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.[1]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brash Island, Danger Islands. . 2015 . BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 26 October 2020.