Norvegia
Norvegia is a monitoring station in Bouvet Island and has about 6 residents. Norvegia is situated nearby to Horntvedt Glacier, as well as near the locality Cape Circoncision.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Horntvedt Glacier and Mosbytoppane.
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.
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. Olavtoppen is situated 4 km east of Norvegia.
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. Cape Valdivia is situated 5 km northeast of Norvegia.
Norvegia
- Type: Monitoring station
- Also known as: “Norvegia Station”
- Location: Bouvet Island
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.4119° or 54° 24′ 43″ southLongitude
3.2894° or 3° 17′ 22″ eastPopulation
6Open location code
3FQ5H7QQ+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 3321448732OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=monitoring_stationGeoNames ID
13513008
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In Other Languages
“Norvegia” goes by many names.
- Norwegian: “Nyrøysa”
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