Fascinating story!
Bouvet Island lies in the furthest reaches of the storm-wracked Southern Ocean, far south even of the Roaring Forties. It is a speck of ice in the middle of a freezing fastness: a few square miles of uninhabited volcanic basalt groaning under several hundred feet of glacier, scraped raw by gales, shrouded by drifts of sea-fog, and utterly devoid of trees, shelter, or landing places.
Around Bouvet Island, it is possible to draw a circle of one thousand miles radius (having an area of 3,146,000 square miles, or very nearly that of Europe) which contains no other land whatever. No other point of land on the earth’s surface has this peculiarity.
An unidentified whaler or ship’s lifeboat found abandoned on Bouvet Island on 2 April 1964…bore no identifying marks. There were signs that survivors might have made it to shore, but no trace of them has ever been found…
Full article: “An Abandoned Lifeboat at World’s End”