Bouvet Island is a 19-square-mile chunk of rock and ice that lies 1,600 miles from the nearest permanently inhabited land - South Africa. And 93 per cent of it is covered by a glacier.

No wonder sailors call Bouvet the world's most remote island; no wonder writers and science fiction movie-makers keep using it in their storylines. Other stories from the AGU meeting you might like: ...

The uninhabited Bouvet Island is a staggering 1,400 miles away from any sign of human life, but strangely still has its own internet domain - and a strange past. Comments. News.