Brash Island

Brash Island is an isolated island lying 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".

Important Bird Area

The island has been identified as a 63 ha Important Bird Area 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.