Bouvet Island is a secluded volcanic island in the Southern Ocean, and it neighbors Cape Town in South Africa from the southwest. The close territory is Queen Maud Land, in the Antarctic continent, and is particularly approximately 1,000 kilometers off south of Bouvet Island. A French ship officer, from whom the island obtained its title, found out this uninhabited volcanic island in the eighteenth century. In 1825, the British found the island and claimed it by raising their flag on the island. However, in 1928, Great Britain decides to place a claim on the island on behalf of Norway. As for now, the Kingdom of Norway operates a meteorological post in Bouvet Island. The inland region of the island is hard to get at because it is characterized by high cliffs of over 400 meters from their touching grounds, and Nearly the whole of the island is in the form of thick glacier that makes the island impassible. ![](http://www.tourist-destinations.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Bouvet-Island.jpg)
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