In the South Atlantic Ocean, there is the deserted island in the world. On this island there is a penguin. Distance from the nearest island is 1,600 miles.

Reporting from Conde Nast Traveler, Tuesday (21/06/2013), this island was named Bouvet Island. The island has a complicated history. Bouvet is the name of the French sailors who first saw it in 1739. Before the discovery of Antarctica, the island is believed to be located at the most southern point of the earth. But its location was traced.

Island Bouvet Island finally rediscovered by a British expedition in the 19th century. Then they gave the name Lindsay Island, then to Liverpool Island. In 1927, a Norwegian Antarctic expedition is claimed Bouvet Norwegian soil.

Bouvet Island is actually only a small part of Norway. This is because it is nearly 8,000 miles (12,874 km) away from Oslo. The island is uninhabited, bervulkanik, and glacier-covered desert has an area of ​​almost half the size of Manhattan, New York, USA.

Very difficult for the traveler visiting Bouvet Island. The nearest place of this island is Gough Island, about 1,600 miles to the north, and the coast of Antarctica, about 1,770 miles to the south. South Atlantic boat crossing had to spend many days to reach Bouvet Island, unless the weather is very good.

The only station on Bouvet research has also been destroyed by an earthquake in 2006. Now residents of this island only the penguins by more than 100 thousand heads. This place is internationally recognized as the conservation of birds and sea anjng.

So difficult for traveling to Bouvet Island, making this island a diamond that must be reached by world travelers. John Clouse, who was awarded the "World's Most Traveled Man," version of the Guinness Book of World Records recorded Bouvet Island had never visited.

Clouse successor, Charles Veley, finally reached the island of Bouvet Island in 2003. Veley spent 72 days traveling and doing dangerous helicopter landing. The traveler finally entered into the record of human history, which managed to gain a foothold in the world's most deserted island.