BOUVET ISLAND

Bouvet Island is an uninhabited sub Antarctic high island and dependency of Norway located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It lies at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and is the most remote island in the world, approximately 1,100 miles north of the Princess Astrid Coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, 1,200 miles east of the South Sandwich Islands, 990 miles south of Gough Island and 1,600 miles south-southwest of the coast of South Africa. The island has an area of 19 square miles, of which 93 percent is covered by a glacier.

Location of Bouvet Island (circled in red) in the Atlantic Ocean