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'''Bouvet Island''' is an uninhabited subantarctic high island and dependency of Norway located in the [[Southern Ocean]] at 54°25.8′S 3°22.8′E, putting it north of and outside the [[Antarctic Treaty]]. It lies at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and is the most remote island in the world, approximately 2000 km south-southwest of the coast of South Africa and approximately 1700 km north of the Princess Astrid Coast of [[Queen Maud Land]]. | '''Bouvet Island''' is an uninhabited subantarctic high island and dependency of Norway located in the [[Southern Ocean]] at 54°25.8′S 3°22.8′E, putting it north of and outside the [[Antarctic Treaty]]. It lies at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and is the most remote island in the world, approximately 2000 km south-southwest of the coast of South Africa and approximately 1700 km north of the Princess Astrid Coast of [[Queen Maud Land]]. | ||
The island has an area of 49 km<sup>2</sup>, of which 93% is covered by a glacier. The center of the island is an ice-filled crater of an inactive volcano. Some skerries and one smaller island, Larsøya, lie along its coast. Nyrøysa, created by a rock slide in the late 1950s, is the only easy place to land and is the location of a weather station. | The island has an area of 49 km<sup>2</sup>, of which 93% is covered by a [[glacier]]. The center of the island is an ice-filled crater of an inactive volcano. Some skerries and one smaller island, Larsøya, lie along its coast. Nyrøysa, created by a rock slide in the late 1950s, is the only easy place to land and is the location of a weather station. | ||
==Discovery and name== | ==Discovery and name== | ||