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<title>
Bouvet Island (Norway): Geography
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Bouvet Island
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: in the south Atlantic Ocean, 2,575 km
south-southwest of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 58 km2</l>
<l> land area: 58 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: about 0.3 times the size of Washington,
DC</l>
</list>
<p>Land boundaries: 0 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 29.6 km
</p>
<list>
<l>Maritime claims:</l>
<l> territorial sea: 4 nm</l>
</list>
<p>International disputes: none
</p>
<p>Climate: antarctic
</p>
<p>Terrain: volcanic; maximum elevation about 800 meters; coast
is mostly inaccessible
</p>
<p>Natural resources: none
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: 0%</l>
<l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: 0%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: 0%</l>
<l> other: 100% (all ice)</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: 0 km2
</p>
<p>Environment: covered by glacial ice
</p>
<p>Note: located in the South Atlantic Ocean
</p></body></article></text>