Norwegian field station dissapeard

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175915728614917733.post-53643398076403094852008-02-18T22:37:00.009+01:002008-02-18T22:59:53.641+01:002008-02-18T22:59:53.641+01:00Norwegian field station dissapeard<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_oKSTi9lYuzk/R7n-O0nISTI/AAAAAAAAADc/LZvtWEISWgg/s1600-h/bouvet.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_oKSTi9lYuzk/R7n-O0nISTI/AAAAAAAAADc/LZvtWEISWgg/s320/bouvet.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168441577978743090" border="0" /></a> The Norwegian Polar Institute’s field station on Bouvetøya (Bouvet Island) is no longer to be seen on satellite images, and scientists are now working on the theory that it has been taken by a landslide and driven out in the ocean. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_oKSTi9lYuzk/R7n-YEnISVI/AAAAAAAAADs/FsYcblXq7fk/s1600-h/bouvetisland.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_oKSTi9lYuzk/R7n-YEnISVI/AAAAAAAAADs/FsYcblXq7fk/s320/bouvetisland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168441736892533074" border="0" /></a> The unmanned field station is located on the most remote island on the planet, in the South Atlantic Ocean. By a Royal Norwegian Decree of January 23, 1928, Bouvetøya became a Norwegian Territory. In 1929, Riiser Larsen, the famous explorer, flew over the island several times when the Norvegia called again to collect specimens. As on their first visit, stores were landed for the assistance of shipwrecked sailors, this time at Larsøya. The Discovery, under Sir Douglas Mawson with a South African Meteorologist (S. A. Engelbrecht) called later in 1929, but found conditions too hostile to establish a weather station. On a subsequent visit by the Norvegia, both of the huts they had established had disappeared. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_oKSTi9lYuzk/R7n-TUnISUI/AAAAAAAAADk/DOZCO-2RsGE/s1600-h/bouvet.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_oKSTi9lYuzk/R7n-TUnISUI/AAAAAAAAADk/DOZCO-2RsGE/s320/bouvet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168441655288154434" border="0" /></a> Norwegian scientists have regular field stays on Bouvetøya to study foraging strategies and distribution of fur seals and penguins. The monitoring is part of the international programme CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring System (CEMP) for the Antarctic marine ecosystem and has high priority within Norwegian Antarctic research. The last time scientists from the Norwegian Polar Institute worked on the island was in 2001, but during the Antarctic expedition in 2003/2004, expedition members from the Norwegian Polar Institute visited the island briefly. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_oKSTi9lYuzk/R7n-KUnISSI/AAAAAAAAADU/BSUzrfXbuQc/s1600-h/bouvet1..jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_oKSTi9lYuzk/R7n-KUnISSI/AAAAAAAAADU/BSUzrfXbuQc/s320/bouvet1..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168441500669331746" border="0" /></a> Read the report from the scientists’ <a href="http://npweb.npolar.no/english/articles/travellogbouvet">current stay</a> As a curiosity: Bouvet was the setting of the 2004 movie Alien vs. Predator, in which it is referred to using its Norwegian name "Bouvetøya". Despite being uninhabited, Bouvet Island has the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .bv, though it is not used. A handful of amateur radio expeditions have gone to this remote location (call signs used here begin with 3Y). There is no telephone country code or area code, and no telephone connection (except by satellite, but there is nothing installed). There is no postal code and no postal distribution. Ships appoaching the Bouvet Island falls within the UTC Z time zone. There is a Norwegian law saying that the time zone of Norwegian territory is UTC+1, except for a part of year (daylight saving time). This means that the legal time zone is UTC+1 for the Bouvet Island, like Jan Mayen which is located in the UTC-1 nautical time zone, but also has UTC+1.NorwegianMoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15879206853013582078noreply@blogger.com