Bouvet Island
Bouvet Island is an island in Bouvet Island. Bouvet Island is situated nearby to the locality Cape Valdivia, as well as near Cape Circoncision.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Olavtoppen and Christensen Glacier.
Olavtoppen
Peak
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.
Christensen Glacier
Glacier
Following is a list of glaciers of Bouvet Island in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Bouvet Island.
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. Lykketoppen is situated 3½ km southwest of Bouvet Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cape Valdivia and Cape Circoncision.
Cape Valdivia
Locality
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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 4 km north of Bouvet Island.
Cape Circoncision
Locality
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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 5 km northwest of Bouvet Island.
Bouvet Island
- Type: Island
- Also known as: “Bouvetoya”
- Category: landform
- Location: Bouvet Island
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Latitude
-54.42222° or 54° 25′ 20″ southLongitude
3.35833° or 3° 21′ 30″ eastElevation
576 metres (1,890 feet)Open location code
3FQ5H9H5+48GeoNames ID
3371122
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Bouvet Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bouvet”
- Bulgarian: “Буве”
- Catalan: “Bouvet”
- Chinese: “布韦岛”
- Croatian: “Otok Bouvet”
- Czech: “Bouvetův ostrov”
- Danish: “Bouvetøen”
- Dutch: “Bouvet”
- Esperanto: “Buvetinsulo”
- Estonian: “Bouvet‘ saar”
- Finnish: “Bouvet’nsaari”
- French: “Île Bouvet”
- German: “Bouvetinsel”
- Greek: “Μπουβέ”
- Hebrew: “בובה”
- Hungarian: “Bouvet-sziget”
- Icelandic: “Bouveteyja”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Bouvet”
- Italian: “Isola Bouvet”
- Japanese: “ブーベ島”
- Korean: “부베 섬”
- Latvian: “Buvē sala”
- Lithuanian: “Buvė”
- Northern Sami: “Bouvetsuolu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bouvetøya”
- Norwegian: “Bouvetøya”
- Polish: “Wyspa Bouveta”
- Portuguese: “Bouvet”
- Russian: “Буве”
- Serbian: “Острво Буве”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otok Bouvet”
- Slovak: “Bouvetov ostrov”
- Slovenian: “Bouvetov otok”
- Slovenian: “Otok Bouvet”
- Spanish: “Isla Bouvet”
- Swedish: “Bouvetön”
- Turkish: “Bouvet Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Буве”
- Welsh: “Ynys Bouvet”
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