Bouvet Island or Bouvetøya is one of the Subantarctic Islands, an uninhabited ice-clad place 2600 km south-southwest of Cape Town. It has a good claim to be the world's most remote island: anywhere within 2,000 km (1,200 mi) is similarly desolate, such as mainland Antarctica. It's a dependency of Norway, and is actually closer to the equator than Norway. That's testament to the chill of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, compared to the balmy North Atlantic.