Bouvet
Island
(Bouvetøya)
Situated in the South-Atlantic Ocean far south of Cape Town, South Africa, the Norwegian Bouvetøya (Bouvet Island) is geographically the most remote place on earth. Most of its steep slopes are covered in permanent ice and only penguins, petrels and seals have found a haven at Nyrøysa, the small coastal platform formed by landslides in the 1950s.
Only seven summer expeditions of the Norwegian Polar Institute has visited the island since the 1990s to conduct research on seals, penguins and flying seabirds. These images were taken during the 2014/15 and 2017/18 expeditions.
"It is the most isolated spot in the whole world – a fact which anyone who cares to spend an instructive five minutes with a pair of dividers and a good globe can easily verify. Around Bouvet Island, it is possible to draw a circle of one thousand miles radius (having an area of 3,146,000 square miles, or very nearly that of Europe) which contains no other land whatever. No other point of land on the earth’s surface has this peculiarity."
Rupert Gould. ‘The Auroras, and Other Doubtful Islands.’ In Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1944. p.136.