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Bouvet Island

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Bouvet Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in Antarctica that is almost entirely covered by glaciers, making it difficult to visit. The most remote island on earth, it is named after French naval officer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, who discovered it in 1739. In 1825, the United Kingdom was the first country to claim the island but then ceded its claim to Norway in 1929. In 1971, Norway designated Bouvet Island and the adjacent territorial waters as a nature reserve.
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