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==Discovery and name== | ==Discovery and name== | ||
They were delineated from aerial photographs taken by the [[U.S. Navy]]'s Operation Highjump in December 1946. The islands were named by the Advisory Committee on [[Antarctic]] Names for the USS ''Brownson'', a vessel of the eastern task group of Operation Highjump. | They were delineated from aerial photographs taken by the [[U.S. Navy]]'s Operation Highjump in December 1946. The islands were named by the Advisory Committee on [[Antarctic]] Names for the USS ''Brownson'', a vessel of the eastern task group of Operation Highjump. | ||
==Ecology== | |||
[[File:Brownson Island Lichens.jpg|350px|thumb|Black and yellow lichens on a granite boulder in the Brownson Islands.]] | |||
In 2017, a research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research visited Brownson Island and discovered evidence of numerous black and yellow [[lichen]]s. The team also identified what they presumed to be bones and skin from dead birds as well as bones buried 6 centimeters under the surface. | |||
==Geology== | |||
The island is predominantly composed of various types of granite, including red and gray granite. This is characterized as fields of small boulders of varying size and composition strewn across the islands. | |||
==Peerage title== | ==Peerage title== | ||