Bolle Bay
Bolle Bay is a cove indenting the western shore of Bouvetøya, entered on the southern side of Norvegia Point. Roughly charted in 1898 by the German expedition under Carl Chun, it was re-charted and named in December 1927 by a Norwegian expedition under Captain Harald Horntvedt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mosbytoppane and Benn Skerries.
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.
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.
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 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.
Bolle Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Bouvet Island
- Category: body of water
- Location: Bouvet Island
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Latitude
-54.43438° or 54° 26′ 4″ southLongitude
3.29412° or 3° 17′ 39″ eastElevation
173 metres (568 feet)Open location code
3FQ5H78V+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 11043659011OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Bolle Bay” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Badia Bolle”
- Chinese: “博萊灣”
- German: “Bollevika”
- Japanese: “ボッレ湾”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bolle Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bollevika”
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