Brash Island

Brash Island

Brash Island Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	63°24′S 54°55′W / 63.400°S 54.917°WCoordinates: 63°24′S 54°55′W / 63.400°S 54.917°W
Archipelago	Joinville Island group
Administration
None
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Brash Island (63°24′S 54°55′W / 63.400°S 54.917°W) 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 metres across).^[1]

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

1. "Brash Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-08-20.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Brash Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).