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ISO Code: BV BVT 074
FIPS 10-4 Code: BV
MARC Code: bv
IOC Code: Not Applicable
Status: dependency of Norway
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Located at 54° 26' S and 3° 24' E, Bouvet Island was first discovered on 1 January 1739 by Jean-Baptiste-Charles Bouvet de Lozier. It was rediscovered by the British on 10 December 1825 and named Liverpool Island. Bouvet was annexed by Norway in 1928 and declared a nature preserve in 1971. Total area: 42km2. The island is uninhabited.
Just for the record, the Norwegian dependencies in
the Antarctic are Bouvet Island, Peter I Island and
Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
The national flag of Norway is the appropriate flag for
them.
Jan Oskar Engene, 19 November 1995
Very interesting
flag for Bouvet Island, a Norwegian
dependency in Antarctica area. I don't understand a word. This might be just
another imaginary nation, proposal, or something else.
Valentin Poposki, 8 November 2006
There are on
this site some presse relaeases in French and in English. Here is the
explanation about what this flag is supposed to stand for, back to March 2002:
"Norway played a key role in helping broker the Oslo Accords between
Israel and the Palestinians in the
early 1990s, but it seems to take a much dimmer view of moves that would grant
independence to penguins living under its control. Amazing, but true - the
Norwegian Justice Ministry has formally rejected independence for one of the
world's most remote islands and the liberation of penguins. The demands came
from a group calling itself the Norwegian Support Group for the Liberation of
Bouvet Island, inhabited largely by seals and penguins but no humans.
Norway claimed the 22.4-square-mile Antarctic island in
1927. The group also demanded the release of penguins in zoos and decent burial
for a stuffed one in a museum. Justice Ministry senior official Morten Ruud
conceded that he didn't know anything about the group's background. "Obviously
it's a joke," he said. "But if someone takes the trouble to write a funny letter,
I must be allowed to write a funny one back." In his two-page response, Ruud
said he could not grant independence partly because the group claimed to
represent only the penguins, the island's minority population when compared with
seals. "There is also a strong form of local democracy," he wrote, since the
majority seals routinely chase the minority penguins to less desirable real
estate. Ruud also said penguins held in Norway did not come from Bouvet Island
and were not represented by the group. (AP, 3/11/02) "
This is the first time I hear from an animal micronation !
Olivier Touzeau, 13 November 2006