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Source        :CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 
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Program       :WORLD FACTBOOK 
Program key   :CI WOFACT 
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ID number     :CI WOFACT 034              
Title         :BOUVET ISLAND 
Data type     :TEXT 
End year      :1994
Date of record:02/16/1994
Keywords 3    : 
| BOUVET ISLAND 
Text          : 
BOUVET ISLAND 
Affiliation: (territory of Norway) 
 
GEOGRAPHY 
Location: in the south Atlantic Ocean, 2,575 km south-southwest of the 
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) 
 
Map references: Antarctic Region 
 
Area: 
 
total area: 58 km2 
 
land area: 58 km2 
 
comparative area: about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC 
 
Land boundaries: 0 km 
 
Coastline: 29.6 km 
 
territorial sea: 4 nm 
 
International disputes: none 
 
Climate: antarctic 
 
Terrain: volcanic; maximum elevation about 800 meters; coast is mostly 
inaccessible 
 
Land use: 
 
arable land: 0% 
 
permanent crops: 0% 
 
meadows and pastures: 0% 
 
forest and woodland: 0% 
 
other: 100% (all ice) 
 
Irrigated land: 0 km2 
 
Environment: covered by glacial ice 
 
Note: located in the South Atlantic Ocean 
 
PEOPLE 
Population: uninhabited 
 
GOVERNMENT 
Names: 
 
conventional long form: none 
 
conventional short form: Bouvet Island 
 
Digraph: BV 
 
Type: territory of Norway 
 
Capital: none; administered from Oslo, Norway 
 
Independence: none (territory of Norway) 
 
ECONOMY 
Overview: no economic activity 
 
COMMUNICATIONS 
Ports: none; offshore anchorage only 
 
Telecommunications: automatic meteorological station 
 
Defense forces 
Note: defense is the responsibility of Norway 
 
 
 
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July, 1994, SuDoc No. C 1.88:994/7/v.1-2 / R. Muns, UM-St. Louis Libraries 
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