Bouvet Island

Area Total Water (%)	49 km² 0 %
Population Total (2004) Population density	0 0/km²
Dependency of Norway since	February 27, 1930
Time zone	UTC +1
Top level domains	.bv .no
Country calling code	47

Map of Bouvet Island

Aerial photo

Bouvet Island (Norwegian: Bouvetøya, also historically known as Liverpool Island or Lindsay Island) is an uninhabited sub-antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, south-southwest of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). It is a dependent area of Norway and is not subject to the Antarctic Treaty, as it is north of the latitude below which claims are suspended. Image File history File links Orthographic projection centered over Bouvet Island File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... Dependent areas are territories that for some reason do not possess full political independence or sovereignty as states. ... February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... ... A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ... .bv is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bouvet Island, which is uninhabited. ... .no is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Norway. ... This is a list of country calling codes, also known as international direct dialing (IDD) codes, which are needed to access international telephone services. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 787 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2804 × 2136 pixel, file size: 876 KB, MIME type: image/png) Map of Bouvet Island, Southern Atlantic Ocean drawn by varp File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 787 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2804 × 2136 pixel, file size: 876 KB, MIME type: image/png) Map of Bouvet Island, Southern Atlantic Ocean drawn by varp File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Greek ἀνταρκτικός, opposite the arctic) is a continent surrounding the Earths South Pole. ... The Cape of Good Hope; looking towards the west, from the coastal cliffs above Cape Point. ... A dependent territory, dependent area or dependency is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a State. ... For the Antarctic Treaty from the Gundam anime, see Antarctic Treaty (Gundam) The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively called the Antarctic Treaty System or ATS, regulate the international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earths only uninhabited continent. ...

Geography

Bouvet Island is located at 54°26′S, 3°24′E. It is 49 km² in area, 93% of which is covered by glaciers which block the south and east coasts.^[1] Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Glacial and Glaciation redirect here. ...

Bouvet Island is the most remote island in the world. The nearest land is Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, over 1,600 km (1,000 miles) away to the south, which is itself uninhabited. This is a list of lists of extreme points of the world, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other locations on the landmasses, continents or countries. ... Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) is the part of Antarctica lying between the terminus of Stancomb-Wills Glacier, at 20°W, and Shinnan Glacier, at 44° 38E. It has a land area of approximately 2,500,000 km², mostly covered by the Antarctic ice sheet. ...

It has no ports or harbors, only offshore anchorages, and is difficult to approach. The easiest way is with a helicopter from a ship. The glaciers form a thick ice layer falling in high cliffs into the sea or onto the black beaches of volcanic sand. The 29.6 km (18.4 miles) of coastline are often surrounded by an ice pack. The highest point on the island is called Olavtoppen, whose peak is 780 m (2,559 ft) above sea level. A lava shelf on the island's west coast, which appeared between 1955 and 1958, provides a nesting site for birds. This article is about volcanoes in geology. ... A kilometer (Commonwealth spelling: kilometre), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1,000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... A mile is a unit of length, usually used to measure distance, in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, United States customary units and Norwegian/Swedish mil. ... The or meter (see spelling differences) is a measure of length. ... This article is about a foot as a unit of length. ... Look up lava, Aa, pahoehoe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Because of the harsh climate and ice-bound terrain, vegetation is limited to lichens and mosses. Seals, seabirds and penguins are the only fauna.

History

Bouvet Island was discovered on January 1, 1739, by Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, who commanded the French ships Aigle and Marie. However, the island's position was not accurately fixed having been placed eight degrees to the east, and Bouvet did not circumnavigate his discovery, so it remained unclear whether it was an island or part of a continent.^[2] January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... // About the number 1739 1739 is the smallest integer that can be written as sum of three perfect cubes, in two ways. ... Jean Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (January 14, 1705 - 1786) was a French sailor, explorer, and governor of the Mascarene Islands. ...

In 1772, Captain James Cook left South Africa on a mission to find the island. However, when arriving at 54°S, 11°E where Bouvet had said he sighted the island, nothing was to be seen. Captain Cook assumed that Bouvet had taken an iceberg for an island, and he abandoned the search. ^[3] James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ...

The island was not sighted again until 1808, when it was spotted by James Lindsay, the captain of the Enderby Company whaler Snow Swan. Though he didn't land, he was the first to correctly fix the island's position. During this time the island was sometimes referred to as Lindsay Island, though it was not then completely certain that it was the same island as Bouvet had sighted. Year 1808 (MDCCCVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... A whaler (or whale catcher) is a specialized kind of ship, designed for catching whales. ...

The first successful landfall dates to December 1822, when Captain Benjamin Morrell of the sealer Wasp landed, hunting for seals. He was successful and took several seal skins. 1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... subfamilies Otariidae Phocidae Odobenidae Pinnipeds are large marine mammals belonging to the Pinnipedia, a family (sometimes a suborder or superfamily, depending on the classification scheme) of the order Carnivora. ...

On December 10, 1825, Captain Norris, master of the Enderby Company whalers Sprightly and Lively, landed on the island, named it Liverpool Island, and claimed it for the British Crown. Again, it was not known with certainty at the time that this was the same island found previously. He also reported sighting a second island nearby, which he named Thompson Island. No trace of this island now remains. December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, 21 days before the next year. ... Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway 1825 (MDCCCXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The British monarch or Sovereign is the monarch and head of state of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories, and is the source of all executive, judicial and (as the Queen_in_Parliament) legislative power. ... Thompson Island is a phantom island in the South Atlantic. ...

In 1898, the German Valdivia expedition of Carl Chun visited the island but did not land. Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Carl Chun (October 1, 1852 – April 11, 1914) was a German marine biologist. ...

The first extended stay on the island was in 1927, when the Norwegian "Norvegia" crew stayed for about a month; this is the basis for the territorial claim by Norway, who have named the island Bouvet Island (Bouvetøya in Norwegian). The island was annexed on December 1, 1927, by a Royal Norwegian Decree of January 23, 1928, Bouvetøya became a Norwegian Territory. The United Kingdom waived its claim in favor of Norway the following year. In 1930 a Norwegian act was passed that made the island a dependent area subject to the sovereignty of the Kingdom (but not a part of the Kingdom). Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ceremonies during the annexation of Hawaii. ... December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise supreme political (e. ...

In 1964, an abandoned lifeboat was discovered on the island, along with various supplies; however, the lifeboat's passengers were never found.^[4] 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Severn class lifeboat in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England. ...

In 1971, Bouvet Island and the adjacent territorial waters were designated a nature reserve. In the 1950s and 1960s, there was some interest from South Africa to establish a weather station, but conditions were deemed to be too hostile. The island remains uninhabited, although an automated weather station was set up there in 1977 by the Norwegians. 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... A technician examines a weather stations anemometer. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ...

On September 22, 1979, a satellite recorded a flash of light (which was later interpreted as having been caused by a nuclear bomb explosion or natural event such as a meteor) in a stretch of the southern Indian Ocean between Bouvet Island and Prince Edward Islands. This flash, since dubbed the Vela Incident, is still not completely resolved. September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... An Earth observation satellite, ERS 2 For other uses, see Satellite (disambiguation). ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... Photo of a burst of meteors with extended exposure time A meteor is the visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earths (or another bodys) atmosphere, commonly called a shooting star or falling star. ... Orthographic projection centered on the Prince Edward Islands Map of Prince Edward Islands The Prince Edward Islands are two small islands in the sub-antarctic Indian Ocean that are politically part of South Africa. ... Orthographic projection centered on the Prince Edward Islands, the location of the Vela incident The Vela Incident (sometimes known as the South Atlantic Flash) was an as-yet unidentified flash of light detected by a United States Vela satellite on September 22, 1979. ...

Despite being uninhabited, Bouvet Island has the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .bv, though it is not used.^[5] A handful of amateur radio expeditions have gone to this remote location (call signs used here begin with 3Y). Bouvet Island falls within the UTC Z time zone. Atlantic/St_Helena is the zone used in the time zone database. A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters which follow the final dot of any domain name. ... A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ... .bv is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bouvet Island, which is uninhabited. ... Amateur radio station with modern solid-state transceiver featuring LCD display and DSP capabilities Amateur radio, often called Ham radio, is a hobby enjoyed by about six million people[1] throughout the world. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ...

Southeast coast of Bouvet Island, 1898

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Bouvet Island in fiction

• Bouvet is the setting of the 2004 movie Alien vs. Predator, in which it is referred to using its Norwegian name "Bouvetøya."
• The island figures prominently in the book A Grue of Ice by Geoffrey Jenkins.

shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alien vs. ... Geoffrey Jenkins (1920-2001) was a South African novelist born in Port Elizabeth where he wrote his first novel by the age of seventeen. ...

See also

• Sub-antarctic islands

The sub-antarctic islands are the islands in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. ...

References

• LeMasurier, W. E.; Thomson, J. W. (eds.) (1990). Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. American Geophysical Union, 512 pp. ISBN 0-87590-172-7. 

1. ^ CIA - The World Factbook - Bouvet Island. CIA (2007-01-14).
2. ^ Worldstats: Providing information about our world!. worldstats.org (2007-01-14).
3. ^ Boudewijn Buch - Eilanden (holland, 1991)
4. ^ MISR Image: Bouvet Island. NASA (2007-01-14).
5. ^ Norid: .bv and .sj domains are not in use. Norid (2007-01-14).

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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Bouvet Island

• Wikimedia Atlas of Bouvet Island, holding maps related to Bouvet Island.
• Bouvet Island as seen from a Satellite
• Information on Bouvet Island
• Bouvet Island - Bouvetøya
• Bouvet Island at Infoplease
• 2000 Bouvet Island amateur radio expedition (3YØC)
• 1990 Bouvet Island amateur radio expedition (3Y5X)

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Bouvet Island · Jan Mayen · Queen Maud Land · Peter I Island · Svalbard Image File history File links Flag_of_Norway. ... Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land) is the part of Antarctica lying between the terminus of Stancomb-Wills Glacier, at 20°W, and Shinnan Glacier, at 44° 38E. It has a land area of approximately 2,500,000 km², mostly covered by the Antarctic ice sheet. ... Fabian von Bellingshausen discovered Peter I Island (in Norwegian ) off West Antarctica on January 21, 1821. ...