| Geography and Climate |
Bouvet Island is located in Southern Africa, island in the South Atlantic Ocean, south-southwest of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Total area is 58 sq km, land: 58 sq km, water: 0 sq km.
Area comparatively about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC.
Climate in Bouvet Is. is antarctic. Terrain is volcanic and maximum elevation about 800 meters; coast is mostly inaccessible. The elevation extreme has lowest point in Atlantic Ocean 0 m and highest point, unnamed location 780 m. Land use: arable land: 0%, permanent crops: 0%, permanent pastures: 0, forests and woodland: 0%, other: 100% (all ice).
Geography—note: covered by glacial ice.
Ref. Anonymous, 1999 |