Bouvet Island
Norwegian uninhabited subantarctic volcanic island
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Bouvet Island is a remote, uninhabited volcanic island located in the subantarctic region that belongs to Norway. It is significant as a strategically important territorial possession and serves as a site for scientific research due to its extreme and isolated environment.
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Bouvet Island (/ˈbuːveɪ/ BOO-vay; Norwegian: Bouvetøya [bʉˈvèːœʏɑ]) is an uninhabited subantarctic volcanic island and dependency of Norway. A protected nature reserve situated in the South Atlantic Ocean at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, it is the world's most remote island. Located north of 60°S latitude, Bouvet Island is not part of the southern region covered by the Antarctic Treaty System.
The island lies 1,700 km (1,100 mi; 920 nmi) north of the Princess Astrid Coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, 1,870 km (1,160 mi; 1,010 nmi) east of the South Sandwich Islands, 1,845 km (1,146 mi; 996 nmi) south of Gough Island, and 2,520 km (1,570 mi; 1,360 nmi) south-southwest of the coast of South Africa. It has an area of 49 km (19 sq mi), 93 percent of which is covered by a glacier. The centre of the island is the ice-filled crater of an inactive volcano. Some skerries and one smaller island, Larsøya, lie along its coast. Nyrøysa, created by a rockslide in the late 1950s, is the only easy place to land and is the location of a weather station.
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1920s establishments in AntarcticaAntarctic regionBouvet IslandDependencies of NorwayImportant Bird Areas of AntarcticaImportant Bird Areas of Norwegian overseas territoriesImportant Bird Areas of subantarctic islandsInactive volcanoesIslands of the South Atlantic OceanMid-Atlantic RidgeNature reserves in NorwayPenguin colonies