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Bouvet Island is located in the Atlantic Ocean near Antarctica, so it’s not surprising that this small a piece of land, lost in cold waters, is no different climate favorable to humans, nor the wealth of flora and fauna.
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It is for the most part glacier-covered volcanic education with an area of 58 square kilometers where none of the people never lived and still does not live. The island is named after French explorer-traveler Bouvet de Lozier, who in 1739 discovered this land area. However, for the first time the human foot set foot on the Bouvet only in 1927.
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These were the Norwegians from the ship Norvegia, it was they who “attributed” island to their country (such an affiliation is preserved to this day day). Bouvet was so unfriendly to the guests that subsequently rarely anyone dared to sail here, and today on the island can be reached only by helicopter. However, are brave sea travelers who risk visiting this a deserted and very harsh corner of the planet, but they usually don’t manages to even land on Bouvet. It is no coincidence that among them there is a joke (in which there is a considerable share of truth): in order to count having visited the island, it is enough to sail around it on a ship. Really, lower the boat and go to these gloomy shores – a life-threatening enterprise.
The first mystery of Bouvet Island
But here’s what surprises researchers of paranormal phenomena: in In 1964, the British ship HMS Protector approached Bouvet and the crew, ashore, was surprised to find in one of lagoon abandoned rowing boat, already half flooded. IN the boat turned out to be full of all kinds of supplies, including alcohol, as well as various things and clothes. Part of this “wealth” lay on the shore, as if the crew of the boat began to unload it, and then for an unknown reason, quit this lesson. However people are not just stopped unloading, but also disappeared without a trace without setting up a camp and without even lighting a fire, which is very strange for sailors, Arrived in a cold on an ice island.
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How often do journalists write about this case, people arose on as if from nowhere and sunk into nowhere, throwing his boat. Indeed, to the nearest settlement from here, almost 2 thousands of kilometers along the waves of the Antarctic, swim such a distance oars are simply unthinkable. It looks like the boat arrived at the island with sunken ship, however since 1955 not a single ship passed near these places, and no information about the wrecks also has been reported.
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By the way, the next time the British sailed to Bouvet after two years, that is, in 1966, and, to its great surprise, not found in the same place neither the boat nor the unloaded things. But after all in a couple of years on a deserted island all this could not disappear like It says, to the last thread and the last sliver. However precisely so it happened …
The second mystery of Bouvet Island
There is another mystery connected with Bouvet Island, which, just like first, no one can still solve. In 1979 American satellite Vela-6911, designed to monitor possible nuclear weapons tests (this was relevant during the cold war between the USA and the USSR), recorded outbreaks in this area, characteristic of nuclear explosions. However, no country in the world claimed responsibility for this incident, which listed so far as the unsolved Vela incident.
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Later, members of the global intelligence community examined Bouvet and the adjacent water area, but no trace no nuclear explosion was detected (neither radiation nor the corresponding seismographs and sonar data).
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Bouvet is currently running an automatic weather station installed here in 2008. To get here you can still by helicopter and – in rare cases – by boat from the ship. Once a year, a mysterious island passes by cruise ship “Alexey Maryshev”, which makes near Bouvet two day stop. In this case, no landings is coming.
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As for individual brave sailors, they can go here on your own initiative, obtaining a Norwegian visa for visiting a mysterious island. Some do, though to land on the inhospitable shore, as we have said, almost nobody succeeds …
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