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We present the discovery of an absorption‐line redshift of   z = 2.609  for GRB 090426, establishing the first firm lower limit to a redshift for a gamma‐ray burst (GRB) with an observed duration of &lt;2 s. With a rest‐frame burst duration of   T  90 z  = 0.35 s  and a detailed examination of the peak energy of the event, we suggest that this is likely (at &gt;90 per cent confidence) a member of the short/hard phenomenological class of GRBs. From analysis of the optical‐afterglow spectrum we find that the burst originated along a very low H  i  column density sightline, with   N  H  i   &lt; 3.2 × 10 19  cm −2  . Our GRB 090426 afterglow spectrum also appears to have weaker low‐ionization absorption (Si  ii , C  ii ) than ∼95 per cent of previous afterglow spectra. Finally, we also report the discovery of a blue, very luminous, star‐forming putative host galaxy  (∼2 L  * )  at a small angular offset from the location of the optical afterglow. We consider the implications of this unique GRB in the context of burst duration classification and our understanding of GRB progenitor scenarios.

GRB 090426: the environment of a rest‐frame 0.35‐s gamma‐ray burst at a redshift of 2.609