Norvegia Point
Norvegia Point, is a point 2 nautical miles south of Cape Circoncision on the west side of Bouvet Island. First roughly charted from the Valdivia in 1898 by a German expedition under Carl Chun.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Point
- Description: headland
- Also known as: “Cape Norvegia” and “Point Norvegia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Benn Skerries and Mosbytoppane.
Benn Skerries
Islet
Benn Skerries are a small group of rocks which extend up to 0.25 nautical miles westward from Norvegia Point on the island of Bouvetøya. They were charted and named in December 1927 by a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia under Captain Harald Horntvedt.
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.
Lykketoppen
Peak
Lykketoppen, occasionally anglicized as Lykke Peak, is a snow-covered, 765-meter tall summit that surmounts the southwest part of Bouvetøya, standing 1 nautical mile east of Norvegia Point.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Circoncision and Cape Valdivia.
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. Cape Circoncision is situated 4 km north of Norvegia Point.
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 Valdivia is situated 6 km northeast of Norvegia Point.
Norvegia Point
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Bouvet Island
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Norvegia Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Norvegia Point”
- Chinese: “諾維吉亞角”
- German: “Norvegiaodden”
- Japanese: “ノルベギア岬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Norvegiaodden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Norvegia Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Norvegiaodden”
- Norwegian: “Norvegiaodden”
- Spanish: “Punta de Norvegia”
- Swedish: “Norvegia Point”
- Swedish: “Norvegiaudden”
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