Cape Valdivia the position of Bouvet island in 1898. Cape Valdivia Cape Valdivia (Kapp Valdivia) is the northernmost point on Bouvet Island ("Bouvetøya i Søratlanteren") in the South Atlantic Ocean. The subantarctic Bouvet Island is administered by Norway. Cape Valdivia lies in the centre of the island's highest point. To the west lies Cape Circoncision ("Kapp Circoncision"), from which Cape Valdivia is separated by a five kilometre stretch of coastline known as the Morgenstierne Coast ("Morgenstiernekysten"). Just north of the cape is the small islet of Gjest Baardsenstøtta. The distance to Norway is about 12,460 km. The cape derives its name from
A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World trading goods from Europe for goods from various places in the "southern ocean", the Atlantic, Pacific, and other seas circling the southern hemisphere. Once the journey was over, sailor Edward Cooke (not "the" Captain Cooke) wrote up an account, in two volumes, that was printed the next year. In it were updated maps, including of the Amazon River, and "An Account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk", about a man who had been marooned on the uninhabited island of "Más a Tierra", which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966, for four years and it covered his manner of living