10 Facts About Bouvet Island

Bouvet Island is an island claimed by Norway, and declared an uninhabited protected nature reserve.

Bouvet Island reported having sighted another island nearby, which he named Thompson Island, but this was later shown to be a phantom island.

Bouvet Island was not able to land and did not circumnavigate his discovery, thus not clarifying if it was an island or part of a continent.

Bouvet Island's plotting of its position was inaccurate, leading several expeditions to fail to find the island.

Thompson Bouvet Island was reported in 1893 by Fuller, but in 1898 Chun did not report seeing such an island, nor has anyone since.

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Nyrøysa, a rock-strewn ice-free area, the largest such on Bouvet Island, was created sometime between 1955 and 1958, probably by a landslide.

Bouvet Island is assigned the amateur radio callsign prefix 3Y0, and several amateur radio DX-peditions have been conducted to the island.

Bouvet Island is located south of the Antarctic Convergence, giving it a marine Antarctic climate dominated by heavy clouds and fog.

In spite of these severe climate conditions, Bouvet Island actually is located four degrees of latitude closer to the equator than the southernmost tip of Norway, which is located at 58°N.

Bouvet Island has been designated as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because of its importance as a breeding ground for seabirds.