Bouvet Island 247 years after its discovery. The Norwegian Polar Institute established a research station, made of shipping containers, at Nyrøysa in 1996. On 23 February 2006, the island experienced a magnitude 6.2 earthquake whose epicentre was about away, weakening the station's foundation and causing it to be blown to sea during a winter storm. In 2014, a new research station was sent from Tromsø in Norway, via Cape Town, to Bouvet. The new station is designed to house six people for periods of two to four months. In the mid-1980s, Bouvetøya, Jan Mayen, and Svalbard were considered as locations for the
Sturge Island Cape Freeman in the north and Cape Smyth in the south. The island's highest point reaches or (the unclimbed Brown Peak). This is the highest point in the Balleny chain. The island forms part of the Ross Dependency, claimed by New Zealand (see claims on Antarctica). Sturge Island Sturge Island () is one of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies southeast of Buckle Island and northeast of Belousov Point on the Antarctic mainland. The islands were discovered by John Balleny in 1839. The island was named after Thomas Sturge,