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
Bouvet Island including a number of small rocks and skerries and one sizable island, Larsøya. It is located in the Subantarctic, south of the Antarctic Convergence, which, by some definitions, would place the island in the Southern Ocean. Bouvet Island is the most remote island in the world. The closest land is Queen Maud Land of Antarctica, which is to the south, and Gough Island, to the north. The closest inhabited location is Tristan da Cunha island, to the northwest. Nyrøysa is a terrace located on the north-west coast of the island. Created by a rock slide sometime between 1955 and 1957,