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
Thompson Island (South Atlantic) Thompson Island (South Atlantic) Thompson Island was a phantom island in the South Atlantic. According to the Global Volcanism Program, it was thought to be about north-northeast of Bouvet Island, a small Norwegian dependency between South Africa and Antarctica. The island was first reported and named by whaling ship captain George Norris in 1825. The last reported sighting was in 1893. When, however, the German survey ship "Valdivia" fixed the position of Bouvet in 1898, it then looked for Thompson, but did not find it. If Thompson ever existed, it is probable that it disappeared in a volcanic eruption sometime