Bouvet Island

Bouvet Island is a remote volcanic island in the southern Atlantic, its slopes almost entirely covered by glaciers and ringed by steep cliffs. In 1739 the French navigator Jean-Baptiste Bouvet de Lozier sighted it while searching for southern land and named the point he saw Cape Circumcision. Difficult conditions prevented a landing; the island was not sighted again until 1808, and a landing was made in 1822.