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<text id=94CT0202><title>Bouvet Island—Geography</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Bouvet Island<nl>Geography</hdr><body>
<list>
<item><hi format=bold>Location:</hi> Southern Africa, in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,575 km south-southwest of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
<item><hi format=bold>Area:</hi>
<list style=hang>
<item>• <hi format=ital>total area:</hi> 58 sq km
<item>• <hi format=ital>land area:</hi> 58 sq km
<item>• <hi format=ital>comparative area:</hi> about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC
</list>
<item><hi format=bold>Land boundaries:</hi> 0 km
<item><hi format=bold>Coastline:</hi> 29.6 km
<item><hi format=bold>Maritime claims:</hi>
<list style=hang>
<item>• <hi format=ital>territorial sea:</hi> 4 nm
</list>
<item><hi format=bold>International disputes:</hi> none
<item><hi format=bold>Climate:</hi> antarctic
<item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> volcanic; maximum elevation about 800 meters; coast is mostly inaccessible
<item><hi format=bold>Natural resources:</hi> none
<item><hi format=bold>Land use:</hi>
<list style=hang>
<item>• <hi format=ital>arable land:</hi> 0%
<item>• <hi format=ital>permanent crops:</hi> 0%
<item>• <hi format=ital>meadows and pastures:</hi> 0%
<item>• <hi format=ital>forest and woodland:</hi> 0%
<item>• <hi format=ital>other:</hi> 100% (all ice)
</list>
<item><hi format=bold>Irrigated land:</hi> 0 sq km
<item><hi format=bold>Environment:</hi>
<list style=hang>
<item>• <hi format=ital>current issues:</hi> NA
<item>• <hi format=ital>natural hazards:</hi> NA
<item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> NA
</list>
<item><hi format=bold>Note:</hi> covered by glacial ice
</list></body></article></text>