Olavtoppen
Olavtoppen, occasionally anglicised as Olav Peak, is the highest point of Bouvet Island, a volcanic island and dependency of Norway, and the remotest island on Earth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 780 metres
- Description: mountain
- Also known as: “Olav Peak” and “Olavs Topp”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Posadowsky Glacier and Horntvedt Glacier.
Posadowsky Glacier
Glacier
Following is a list of glaciers of Bouvet Island in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Bouvet Island.
Horntvedt Glacier
Glacier
Following is a list of glaciers of Bouvet Island in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Bouvet Island.
Mosbytoppane
Peak
Mosbytoppane, are two crags to the southwest of the caldera of the island of Bouvetøya. The tallest is a snow-covered peak 670 meters above mean sea level and 1.3 kilometers northeast of Norvegiaodden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Valdivia and Cape Circoncision.
Cape Valdivia
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cape Valdivia is the northernmost point on Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The subantarctic Bouvet Island is administered by Norway. Cape Valdivia lies in the centre of the island's highest point.
Cape Circoncision
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cape Circoncision is a peninsula on the north-western edge of subantarctic Bouvet Island. The small peninsula was sighted by the French naval exploration that was led by Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier on 1 January 1739, the Feast of the Circumcision day—thus the name.
Olavtoppen
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Bouvet Island
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.40708° or 54° 24′ 26″ southLongitude
3.34951° or 3° 20′ 58″ eastElevation
780 metres (2,559 feet)Open location code
3FQ5H8VX+5ROpenStreetMap ID
node 3054249528OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Olavtoppen” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Olavtoppen”
- Bavarian: “Olavtoppen”
- Catalan: “Olavtoppen”
- Cebuano: “Olav Peak”
- Cebuano: “Olavtoppen”
- Chinese: “奧拉夫峰”
- Chinese: “布維島”
- Czech: “Olavtoppen”
- Dutch: “Olavstoppen”
- Dutch: “Olavtoppen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل اولاڤتوپين”
- French: “Olavtoppen”
- German: “Kaiser Wilhelm Pik”
- German: “Olavtoppen”
- Hungarian: “Olavtoppen”
- Indonesian: “Olavtoppen”
- Japanese: “オラフ峰”
- Ladin: “Olavtoppen”
- Latvian: “Olavtoppen”
- Latvian: “Ūlavtopens”
- Luxembourgish: “Olavtoppen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Olavstoppen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Olavtoppen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Olavtoppen”
- Norwegian: “Olavstoppen”
- Norwegian: “Olavtoppen”
- Polish: “Olavtoppen”
- Portuguese: “Olavtoppen”
- Spanish: “Olavtoppen”
- Spanish: “Pico Olav”
- Spanish: “Pico Olavtoppen”
- Swedish: “Olav Peak”
- Swedish: “Olavtoppen”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Nyroysa and Vogtkysten.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Skoddenuten and Kraterisen.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Olavtoppen”. Photo: Fguerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0.