Bouvet Island is an uninhabited subantarctic high island and dependency of Norway located in the South Atlantic Ocean, thus locating it north of and outside the Antarctic Treaty System. It lies at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and is the most remote island in the world, approximately 1,700 kilometres north of the Princess Astrid Coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, 1,160 kilometres east of the South Sandwich Islands and 2,600 kilometres south-southwest of the coast of South Africa.(Wikipedia)