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Bouvet
| Location |
S Atlantic Ocean, SSW of Cape of Good Hope |
| Latitude and longitude |
54 26 S, 3 24 E |
| Sovereignty |
Norway |
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Political status notes
|
Also known as Bouvetøya |
| Population |
uninhabited |
| Land area in square kilometers |
58 |
| Capital |
Administered from Oslo |
Fundamental legal documents online
|
| Lov
om Bouvet-øya, Peter I's øy og Dronning Maud Land (law
relating to the Bouvet Island, Peter I's Island and Queen Maud Land) (Norwegian), from the
Lovdata Foundation |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Bouvetøya,
South Atlantic Ocean, from Paul Carroll’s The
Subatlantic and Antarctic Islands |
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| United Nations System-Wide Earthwatch Island
Directory |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
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