Birds in Bouvet Island

Bouvet Island

Bouvet Island is located in an isolated expanse of the South Atlantic Ocean, 1,500 miles southwest of the Cape of Good Hope, and about 1,050 miles north of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. The nearest island is Gough, 1,020 miles northwest, an uninhabited island belonging to the Tristan de Cunha islands. Who says it's the most remote island? The Guinness Book of World Records, for one. If you're still skeptical, pull out a map and decide for yourself—have you ever seen a more desolate, god-forsaken place?