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ITEM ID     : CI WOFACT WO0034
DATE        : Oct 28, 1994
 
AGENCY      : CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PROGRAM     : WORLD FACTBOOK
TITLE       : World Factbook: Bouvet Island
 
Source key      : CI 
Program key     : CI WOFACT 
Update sched.   : Annually         
Data type       : TEXT 
End year        : 1994
Date of record  : 19941020
Keywords 3      :  
Keywords 3      : | Bouvet Island 
 
 
                               Bouvet Island
 
 
                                  Header
 
Affiliation:
     (territory of Norway)
 
                                 Geography
 
Location:
     Southern Africa, 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 sq km
land area:
     58 sq km
comparative area:
     about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC
Land boundaries:
     0 km
Coastline:
     29.6 km
Maritime claims:
territorial sea:
     4 nm
International disputes:
     none
Climate:
     antarctic
Terrain:
     volcanic; maximum elevation about 800 meters; coast is mostly
     inaccessible
Natural resources:
     none
Land use:
arable land:
     0%
permanent crops:
     0%
meadows and pastures:
     0%
forest and woodland:
     0%
other:
     100% (all ice)
Irrigated land:
     0 sq km
Environment:
current issues:
     NA
natural hazards:
     NA
 
 
international agreements:
     NA
Note:
     covered by glacial ice
 
                                  People
 
Population:
     uninhabited
 
                                Government
 
Names:
conventional long form:
     none
conventional short form:
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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This section of THE WORLD FACTBOOK 1994 produced by the United States
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was derived from the US Dept. of Commerce
Economics and Statistics Division's NATIONAL TRADE DATA BANK (NTDB) CD-ROM,
November, 1994, SuDoc No. C 1.88:994/11/v.1-2 / Presented by Raleigh Muns,
(srcmuns@umslvma.umsl.edu) University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.