Bouvet Island Travel Guide

Bouvet Island is the world's most remote island, an uninhabited Norwegian dependency in the South Atlantic that Norway declared a nature reserve in 1971, and tourism there is simply banned. There is no airport, no harbor, no lodging, no organized tours, and no public visitor infrastructure of any kind, access is restricted to scientific and research purposes only. Occasional specialist nature cruises do sail through the surrounding waters, but landing on the island itself is not part of what those trips offer.

All activity on the island is strictly regulated by the Norwegian Polar Institute, which processes any application under the protection regulations that apply here, and even something as specific as landing a helicopter requires its own special permit, since helicopter landings are otherwise prohibited outright. The one visible trace of human presence is a single weather station at Nyrøysa, a site created by a rockslide in the 1950s and the most common, effectively only, landing point on the rare occasions anyone does go ashore.