![]() Bouvet is appallingly isolated the nearest land is the coast of Antarctica, a further 1,750km south, and it is slightly further than that to Cape Town and Tristan da Cunha. ![]() It is a speck of ice in the middle of a freezing fastness: a few square miles of uninhabited volcanic basalt groaning under several hundred feet of glacier, scraped raw by gales, shrouded by drifts of sea-fog, and utterly devoid of trees, shelter, or landing places. There is no more forbidding place on earth.īouvet Island lies in the furthest reaches of the storm-wracked Southern Ocean, far south even of the Roaring Forties. The unidentified whaler or ship’s lifeboat found abandoned on Bouvet Island on 2 April 1964 ![]()
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