South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, and Norway's Bouvet Island are not covered by those treaties. South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone The South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone (abbreviations: ZPCAS or ZOPACAS; ; ; also called the "Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic") is an organization and a military alliance created in 1986 through resolution A/RES/41/11 of the U.N. general assembly on Brazil's initiative, with the aim of promoting cooperation and the maintenance of peace and security in the South Atlantic region. Particular attention was dedicated to the question of preventing the geographical proliferation of nuclear
Bouvet Island including a number of small rocks and skerries and one sizable island, Larsøya. It is located in the Subantarctic, south of the Antarctic Convergence, which, by some definitions, would place the island in the Southern Ocean. Bouvet Island is the most remote island in the world. The closest land is Queen Maud Land of Antarctica, which is to the south, and Gough Island, to the north. The closest inhabited location is Tristan da Cunha island, to the northwest. Nyrøysa is a terrace located on the north-west coast of the island. Created by a rock slide sometime between 1955 and 1957,