Bouvet Island: Most Remote Island

By Islomaniac | July 11, 2007

I thought I would continue my post from yesterday on the most remote archipelago in the world with the most remote island in the world. The title of most remote island in the world goes to Bouvet Island. Bouvet island also known as Liverpool or Lindsay Island is an uninhabited sub-antarctic volcanic island is located in the South Atlantic Ocean, south-southwest of the Cape of Good Hope. Click below to read more about this island.

Bouvet Island

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Bouvet Island was discovered on January 1, 1739, by Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, who commanded the French ships Aigle and Marie. However, the island’s position was not accurately fixed having been placed eight degrees to the east, and Bouvet did not circumnavigate his discovery, so it remained unclear whether it was an island or part of a continent.

In 1772, Captain James Cook left South Africa on a mission to find the island. However, when arriving at 54°S, 11°E where Bouvet had said he sighted the island, nothing was to be seen. Captain Cook assumed that Bouvet had taken an iceberg for an island, and he abandoned the search.The first extended stay on the island was in 1927, when the Norwegian “Norvegia” crew stayed for about a month; this is the basis for the territorial claim by Norway, who have named the island Bouvet Island (Bouvetøya in Norwegian). The island was annexed on December 1, 1927, by a Royal Norwegian Decree of January 23, 1928, Bouvetøya became a Norwegian Territory. The United Kingdom waived its claim in favor of Norway the following year. In 1930 a Norwegian act was passed that made the island a dependent area subject to the sovereignty of the Kingdom (but not a part of the Kingdom).

In 1964, an abandoned lifeboat was discovered on the island, along with various supplies; however, the lifeboat’s passengers were never found.

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