Bouvet Island: The Most Isolated Piece of Land on Earth 

Bouvet Island is actually just where Club Penguin used to be.

Colonising an island but then forgetting which one it was you colonised is a beautifully British thing to do

"Of course the British fundamentally disagreed with the idea that anyone could just show up, plant a flag, and decide land was theirs." *Gold.*

If you stand on Bouvet Island alone, and the International Space Station is passing over nearby, the astronauts aboard the ISS will be the closest humans to you at that given time.

The reason Norway also has a claim on a huge chunk of the south pole is because of Roald Amundsen (A famous Norwegian arctic explorer) he was the first to reach the south pole. So for winning this competition between Norway and Britain, Britain respected Norway's claim to the islands and the chunk of the south pole. Could maybe be a video topic? :))) liked the video anyways top quality as always.

4:50 please make a video explaining why you want to bring Batman to a deserted island

- Turn on subtitles - 1:22 - Asserting British dominance - KILLING *WALES*

The most isolated island is our secret base in the Pacific Ocean.

Bouvet is one of the most sought-after places for making contacts via amateur radio, for which a small group of people will occasionally show up there and operate stations for a few days. I knew it was an extremely isolated location, but until I saw this video I didn't know about the perpetual ice on it.

Introverts: ”no one lives here you say???”

Wait, Bouvet island might be too isolated to use the Skillshare app.

Several years ago I was trying to find an uninhabited island to move to. It turns out all the uninhabited islands are uninhabited for a reason (flooding, no fresh water, nothing to eat, and so on). This is another one that is uninhabited for a reason. But I guess if you could clear off enough ice to build a house and a dock, you might theoretically be able to survive on fish and melted ice, but you would definitely need regular shipments of fuel for heating. But there really is no attractive reason for someone to want to live there. It's not exactly a tropical paradise.

There’s also a mystery around the island. In 1964 a South African research team visited the island and found a life boat half swamped off the island’s only beach The boat had no markings of any kind and a few hundred yards away from the boat they found the oars, a 44 gallon water drum, pieces of wood, and a buoyancy tank. The South Africans thought castaways just have landed on the island and made a search but found no human remains. Eventually the weather turned bad and the South Africans has to leave The islands weren’t visited again until two years later in 1966 and by then the boat and everything else that was in the beach was gone without a trace. No one knows how it got there or where it went.

You should read the great article “An Abandoned Lifeboat at World’s Edge” about an unexplained lifeboat that was discovered on the shore of Bouvet Island in 1964. It has recently seemingly been resolved, but it’s a fascinating read.

Norway: trying to be a world power since 793.

Why is there no mention of the mysterious boat that was found on the island? That's the most interesting thing about Bouvet Island

I served in the British army, on South Georgia, for 7 months in the 1990s, very interesting tour, nice for the scenery but not a lot happened, we were at King Edward Point across the bay from Grytviken(an old closed down whaling station), which had a couple living there on a small sailing yacht(they wrote a book on the island, which i have a signed copy), they kept the church going and looked after graves, which included the grave of Sir Ernest Shakleton. The Habour master also lived at KEP, he was the defacto governor of the island and controlled the payment of fishing rights (serious money, in the millions per big ship) and ran the post office, and the two marines in or detachment were effectively the island police force. I was one of the 4 man signals detachment that kept all the comms going, there were also engineers that looked after the generators and ridged raider boats, as well as a an army chef, an officer and a St Helenan assistant chef, that was it over winter, hardly more than a dozen people,other than the British Antarctic survey team at the north of the island, who i never met. We did get quite a few cruise ships in the warmer months, and they all came off at KEP looked around Grytviken, bought books and especially, as he said here, stamps and postcards, from the post office,, We were resupplied by boat every month, if it could get there, and mail and small supplies were dropped into the harbour from a Hercules aircraft, which we went out and scooped up in our rigid raiders(waterproofed packages obviously), no airport so it couldn`t land, and the Falklands was too far for a helicopter. No R & R because the ship came, stayed 2 days, and left, it was a four day each way trip, and it didn`t come back for a month, that was too long for crucial staff to be away so no tour break. Physical training was mainly inside, as in winter you sometimes had to be lashed together to get from the accom to the end of the pier, when the weather was better we got to run up the mountainside to the reservoir, but mainly involved running up and down the stairs in the accom. The runs outside in squads always involved jumping over elephant seals, or at least stepping on their backs and jumping off, as they were too big to leap in one go, they were everywhere, but didnt move fast but liked to lie on the flat smooth bits, which was the only path from KEP to Grytviken and the reservoir,, fur seals were the worst, especially the bigger males, they could move a bit, we ran round them with a wider berth.

you might want to change the description, in the video you said "2 months for free" and the description says "2 months for 99c" 🤷

It's not flashes of light from nukes it's just my new textile factory promotion - Israel

The island has its own unused domain name too .bv

Bouvet has an unmanned Norwegian weather station which requires service every couple of years. I suppose it is there to give info to the fishing fleet.

I think the most fascinating thing in the whole video was a South African-Israeli nuclear test. What a random pairing of countries.

1:23 That was an unfortunate typo (activate the subtitles)

Some bond villain probably lives under Bouvet

BirdLife International identified Bouvet Island as an Important-Bird-Area since it serves as a crucial breeding area for seabirds. There were over 117,000breeding penguins on this island in 1978 and 1979.

I have been monitoring Ventusky and on February 21, 2024, at 10 PM, i observed a series of significant wave events ending in Lagos on February 28 at 4 AM. These huge waves consistently originate from this particular island. The latest event was recorded on May 27, 2024, between 10 AM and 4 PM. In total, I have identified seven similar events, which have all led me to pinpoint this specific island.

1:23 with subtitles on: The most unfortunate typo in the history of typos. Also brutally honest history.

Very cool video! I also have a fascination with very remote places, so I enjoyed this. I would love to see more videos like this. Thanks!

Tierzoo reference at the start was great dude

LOVE the Geography aspect of videos like this!!! Keep it up;)

The reason Norway has terretories here makes sense though as we were the first to the south pole.

And I thought the USSR was the most isolated place in the world

Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.

Wait I thought you meant Delaware?

If Wendover doesn't make an airline reference I will be disappointed.

just found your channel, love it, very interesting, thanks buddy from BC Canada

Is it really so strange that Norway owns a lot of land on Antarctica? Considering they were the first people to reach the South Pole? Norwegians could have probably just claimed the entire continent.

It’s funny because I was sitting in the back of my French class today and I saw that little island on the map. It really threw me off because I was like why is it owned by Norway? 😂

I thought St Helena was the most isolated and that's why they confined Napoleon there .

4:40 Usually people mix up "climactic" and "climatic" the one way, but you mixed them up the other way, you rebel! 😉

Fun fact: Despite its remoteness, there are 22 wikipedia articles about this island, literally having an article for ever little rock/islet... (according to Google Earth)

"Eating whale and burning whale oil was once popular until it wasn't" 😂😂😂😂😂

Love the video and bouvet has from time to time scientist coming on it. Could you perhaps make one about the kerguelen?

the way you make videos is absolutely amazing and i love it !!!!! and specially the way you sell skillshare lol XD

Norgesveldet was before a name for Norwegian territorys that included Iceland, Faroe Islands, Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Bear Island, Greenland, Orkney Island, Shetland. And bits of other countries. When Norway was forced out of union with Denmark and into union with Sweden, Norgesveldet did not follow it was left with Denmark. And also abit in Antartica and some islands around as this video show :)

As a Brit, i want to pull you up on one fact. Yes we may repress our emotions and make bad political decisions but beer here in the south of England is extremely expensive in comparison to lots of Europe!

I am from norway!!! and my street is called south georgia, so those that mean i live in one the most isolated piece of land on earth.

Since it's 1,000 miles from the nearest land mass, and literally no one is even near there, let alone goes there, if it, one, had not been a volcano, and two, had not been antarctic, I would say that I need to be there. Yes, Gilligan's Island, but with one castaway, instead of seven.

i read in google around this island, and for some reason this island have it's own domain thing (like .com .eu) it is ".bv" administrated by Norway.

2:40 Waitaminute.... A small extinct volcanic island that is the most isolated place on Earth? Did we just find the secret base of every mad scientist that has ever existed?

random fun fact: in 2007 norway built a container settlement there, but everyone just forgot about it and it fell into the ocean via a landslide. even to the norwegens this was just a fun fact

Thanks for making this video

Basically my social life.

So, what about the weather blob comeing from this island?

AVP definitely comes into mind, I'm surprised that it doesn't even have an abandoned whaling station irl unlike some of the other islands you have mentioned.

I visited Bouvet Island. It’s lovely in spring.

"Cheap beer" **Laughs in Londoner**

Nah, pretty sure my attic is the most isolated piece of land on earth.

Watching this during the covid. Sounds like a good place to ride it out.

"Oi bugger off m8" made me chuckle

You should discuss the abandoned life raft that was found on this island and could never be traced to anyone or any ship. Given that it’s 1,000 miles from land the thought of a life raft there is scary.

Ha u think that that is the most isolated place on earth?try being in class when everyone else has ditched

Thanks for a nice video. Bouvet island may be more off from any other land but the other Norweigian Island Peter 1st Island is far more distant as it is hard to reach and people have only set foot on Peter 1st island a few times where if radio amatuers 80% of the time but.Bouvet is much more visited.

Man I love your videos so much! The second I see one, I click on it!

4:46 If I was stuck on Bouvet Island I would bring a helicopter, a pilot and fuel

I've watched enough of HAI video to know when the ad come There's a certain keyword to it that makes me close the video as soon as he said it

Amateur radio operators sometimes travel to Bouvet to set up two way radio communications around the world. So, in case you get stranded, wait for the next group of amateur radio operators to show up.

I love how it has been uploaded on my birthday

Was that a reference to tierzoo I heard?

don't forget who got to the south pole first 🇳🇴💪

“Amphibious human update” I SENSE TIERZOO

I'm loving the humour in the ad :)

Yeah...like Norway just don't want to give up like 'I must hold on to this piece of ice that will eventually melts!'

Bouvet Island would be the perfect place to build my secret evil base! I mean... uh... I didn't say anything.

Like How you make so many videoes about Norway👍🏼

Fun fact: In the ham radio world, Bouvet Island is the most valuable and wanted place to get a radio contact with. On 2nd place we have North Korea.

My house is more isolated than this...

Am I the only one who paused the video to see the maritime and aerial traffic ?

Sort of interesting story: I had a map of the world that showed both Bouvet Island and Lindsay Island. I never gave it much noticed until I really learned about Bouvet's isolation. So I did some digging and found out that Lindsay Island was the name given to Bouvet all those years ago. For a long time no-one really knew where either lay, so they just accepted i both on maps. The cheap map maker (it was a desktop map probably mass-produced somewhere), copied this fake Lindsay Island somewhere in the 90s even though it had been long discredited.

That transition. Smooth af

More like the most ICE-olated place on earth! Amiright?! I'm sorry. I'll leave....

You make very Good videos.Just upload more frequently.

I might be recalling wrongly, but doesn't that Island have an abandoned/emergency radio station as it's only building? Learned a little about the island yuears ago when it's location on the world map grabed my curiosity. I mean whats there to build a bot off if ytou stranded there, fish, seals and birds. and try to make a boat from that and set sail towards any of the nearby large locations to go for is also a pretty much impossible gamble.

This vid got me exploring google maps...again. :P What an amazing planet!

This HAI guy sounds a bit like that Wendover lad

It’s actually Tracy Island in disguise! Thunderbirds Are Go😂

Every radio amateur's mouth started watering up from this. 3Y, guys, let's do it

4:39 Climactic - adj. for Climax Climatic - adj. for Climate

2:19 Shag Island I think I know what the people are doing there ... 😏

Cheep beer in England! Yeah that's just not true. Please add this to the list of your mistakes as a pint on average costs £4-6 in southern England

2:26 Peter-I. -Insel is below the 60th paralel which means it is under the same law as the rest of Antartica (it can't be claimed by any country and Norway's claim isn't internationaly recognized).

0:24 Tier Zoo Reference NOICE

If my phone was a piece of land

Cool, spesialy sins i am from Norway.

Was waiting to see if you would bring up the Bouvet Island lifeboat mystery...

This has the same energy of sending a settler 300 turns ago in some fogged area in Civilization and plopping a town on it

ok this is epic

There better be a Wikipedia page about it ! Isn't that why this channel existes ? TWL??

Sam I think you should do a video on Kingsley Lake, a lake an almost circular lake, or Lake DeFuniak or Lake Gore

4:38 - climatic** refers to the climate. Climactic relates to the climax of an event or something.