Bouvet Island Bouvet Island Bouvet Island () is an uninhabited subantarctic high island and dependency of Norway located in the South Atlantic Ocean at , thus putting it north of and outside the Antarctic Treaty System. It lies at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and is the most remote island in the world, approximately north of the Princess Astrid Coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica and south-southwest of the coast of South Africa. The island has an area of , of which 93 percent is covered by a glacier. The centre of the island is an ice-filled crater of an
Pound sterling in the South Atlantic and the Antarctic all farthings, halfpennies and half-crowns by 31st day of October 1970, and direct that after that date those coins shall not be current or legal tender within those territories." In the United Kingdom, these coins had already been demonetized, and in the case of the farthing, as long ago as 1960. Pound sterling in the South Atlantic and the Antarctic The United Kingdom possesses a number of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean as well as a section of the Antarctic continent. These territories are St. Helena with Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and