Bouvet Island

territory of Norway

Bouvet Island as the 1991 edition of the CIA World Factbook published it: 17 fields, one of 36 editions from 1990 to 2025.

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Area58 km2
1991

Every edition of Bouvet Island

Populationas each edition published it
Not in this edition 2,000 in 2000

Geography

10 fields
Total area
58km2
land area: 58 km2Comparative area: about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC

Coastline

29.6 km Territorial sea: 4 nm

Climate

antarctic

Terrain

  • volcanic;
  • maximum elevation about 800 meters;
  • coast is mostly inacessible

Land use

  • arable land 0%;
  • permanent crops 0%;
  • meadows and pastures 0%;
  • forest and woodland 0%;
  • other 100% (ice)

Environment

covered by glacial ice

Note

located in the South Atlantic Ocean 2,575 km south-southwest of the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

People

1 field

Population

uninhabited

Government

Territory of Norway

2 fields

Type

territory of Norway

Economy

No economic activity

1 field

Overview

no economic activity

Communications

2 fields

Ports

none; offshore anchorage only

Telecommunications

automatic meteorological station

Defense Forces

1 field

Note

defense is the responsibility of Norway

Central Intelligence Agency. “Bouvet Island.” The World Factbook 1991. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/bouvet-island/1991.

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