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Bouvet Island

Antarctic

Bouvet Island or Bouvetøya is one of the sub-Antarctic islands, an uninhabited ice-clad place 2,600 km south-southwest of Cape Town. It has a good claim to be the world's most remote island: anywhere within 2,000 km is similarly desolate, such as mainland Antarctica. It lies 6,040 km south of the equator and is a dependency of Norway; for comparison, Oslo main railway station is 6650 km north of the equator and can be cold but never ice-clad. That's testament to the chill of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, compared to the balmy North Atlantic.

Guide content adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Bouvet Island". Source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Capital
Currency
LanguagesNorwegian
Dial code+47
Time zoneEtc/GMT

Weather

Live

-6°C

Overcast · feels like -19°C

  • 69%
  • 63 km/h
  • AQI 25
  • SunHeavy snow-9° / -1°
  • MonSlight rain showers-1° / 0°
  • TueModerate snow-2° / 0°
  • WedModerate snow-2° / 0°

Measured at the country centroid, not a specific city.

Money

No exchange rate published for this currency.

Trip cost

What a trip to Bouvet Island costs

Visas, flights, beds, food and everything in between, priced for your party and your dates. Every line shows its own arithmetic, so you can disagree with the parts you know better than we do.

Your trip

8 days on the ground

Hotel category
Flight class

Estimated cost

$3,214

$1,607 per person · $201 per person per day

  • Visa & entry

    $50 × 2 — typical tourist visa or eVisa fee

    $100
  • Flights

    $844 return × 2 · 12,067 km

    $1,687
  • Accommodation

    $65/night × 7 nights × 1 room · Standard

    $454
  • Food & drink

    $20/person/day × 8 days × 2

    $320
  • Local transport

    $8/person/day × 8 days × 2

    $128
  • SIM & internet

    $10 per person, once × 2

    $20
  • Attractions

    $14/person/day × 8 days × 2

    $224
  • Travel insurance

    $3/person/day × 8 days × 2

    $43
Subtotal
$2,976
Miscellaneous (8%)
$238
Total
$3,214

Budget at a glance

Per day

$402

Per person

$1,607

Family of 4

$6,428

7 days

$3,214

14 days

$4,380

30 days

$7,044

The 7, 14 and 30-day figures re-price the whole trip at that length — flights and visas do not repeat, so a month is far from four times a week.

A planning estimate, not a quote — ground costs are modelled from a cost tier for Bouvet Island, not scraped from live inventory. Your settings are saved to this device.