[SADXA] Bouvet Island

[ted at teddowning.com]

This is one inhospitable place.  Hats off to this group of brave souls.

According to Wikipedia


Bouvet Island (Norwegian<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway>: Bouvetøya,[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvet_Island#cite_note-FOR19711217-1> previously spelled Bouvet-øya[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvet_Island#cite_note-LOV19300227-2>) is an uninhabited subantarctic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subantarctic> volcanic island<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_island> and dependency<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependencies_of_Norway> of Norway<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway> located in the South Atlantic Ocean<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Ocean> at 54°25.8′S 3°22.8′E<http://toolserver.org/%7Egeohack/geohack.php?pagename=Bouvet_Island&params=54_25.8_S_3_22.8_E_type:isle_region:BV>Coordinates<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system>: [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/WMA_button2b.png/17px-WMA_button2b.png] 54°25.8′S 3°22.8′E<http://toolserver.org/%7Egeohack/geohack.php?pagename=Bouvet_Island&params=54_25.8_S_3_22.8_E_type:isle_region:BV>. Lying at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge>, it is the most remote island<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_points_of_Earth#Remoteness> in the world. The island has an area of 49 square kilometers (19 sq mi), of which 93 percent is covered by a glacier<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier>. The center of the island is an ice-filled crater of an inactive volcano<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano>. Along the coast lie some skerries<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skerry> and one island, Larsøya<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars%C3%B8ya>. Nyrøysa<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nyr%C3%B8ysa&action=edit&redlink=1>, created by a rock slide<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_slide> in the late 1950s, is the only easy place to land and features a weather station<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_station>.

The island was first spotted on 1 January 1739 by and was later named for Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Charles_Bouvet_de_Lozier>. He recorded inaccurate coordinates, and the island was not sighted again until James Lindsay named it Lindsay Island in 1808. The first claim of landing, although disputed, was by Benjamin Morrell<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Morrell>. The island was claimed for the British Crown<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Crown> by George Norris in 1825, who named it Liverpool Island. He also spotted a nearby phantom island<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_island>, Thompson Island<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Island_%28South_Atlantic%29>. The First Norvegia Expedition<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Riiser-Larsen#The_Norvegia_expeditions> landed on the island in 1927 and claimed it for Norway. After a dispute with the UK, it was declared a Norwegian dependency in 1930. It became a nature reserve<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_reserve> in 1971.

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