Brash Island
| Brash Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 23 '12 " S , 54 ° 54' 48" W | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
| width | 450 m | |
| surface | 63 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Brash Island is an uninhabited island east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies with the neighboring rock Scud Rock halfway between Joinville Island in the northwest and the group of Danger Islands in the southeast. The island was in 1953 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey measured and (after frequent here brash English brash ice named).
Wildlife
Brash Island has one of the largest Adelie penguin colonies in the world. The number of breeding pairs was based on 2014 Landsat 7 - Satellite photos estimated at 166,000.
More on the island of native seabirds are the Cape Petrel , the snowy sheathbill that Kelp , the Brown Skua , the Wilson's Storm Petrel , and the Antarctic Tern . BirdLife International designates Brash Island as an Important Bird Area (AQ063).
Web links
- Brash Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brash Island on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ RD Hamer, G. Hyden: The geochemistry and age of the Danger Islands pluton, Antarctic Peninsula ( Memento from July 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.93 MB). In: British Antarctic Survey Bulletin 64, 1984, pp. 1-19 (English)
- ↑ Heather J. Lynch, Mathew R. Schwaller: Mapping the Abundance and Distribution of Adélie Penguins Using Landsat-7: First Steps towards an Integrated Multi-Sensor Pipeline for Tracking Populations at the Continental Scale (PDF; 1010 kB). In: PLoS ONE 9, No. 11, 2014 pp. 5–12. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0113301
- ↑ Brash Island, Danger Islands (AQ063) , data sheet on the BirdLife International website, accessed July 23, 2018.