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
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