Bouvet Island of establishing a manned meteorological radio station, but a suitable location could not be found. By then both the flagpole and hut from the previous year had been washed away. The Third "Norvegia" Expedition, led by Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, arrived the following year and built a new hut at Kapp Circoncision and on Larsøya. The expedition carried out aerial photography of the island and was the first Antarctic expedition to use aircraft. The "Dependency Act", passed by the Parliament of Norway on 27 February 1930, established Bouvet Island as a dependency, along with Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The
Dependencies of Norway with the ISO 3166-2 code and was subsequently awarded the country code top-level domain .bv on 21 August 1997. Bouvetøya (Bouvet Island) is an uninhabited Subantarctic volcanic island located in the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, either in the South Atlantic Ocean or the Southern Ocean, depending on definition. It is the most remote island in the world, approximately south-southwest off the coast of South Africa and approximately north of the Princess Astrid Coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. The island has an area of , of which 93 percent is covered by a glacier. The center of the