Bouvet Island
Because of the harsh climate
and ice-bound terrain,
vegetation is limited to
lichens and mosses. Seals,
seabirds and penguins are
the only vertebrate fauna.
As such the island is part of
the Scotia Sea Islands
tundra ecoregion, along with
South Georgia and the
South Sandwich Islands, the
South Shetland Islands and
the South Orkney Islands.
Despite being uninhabited,
Bouvet Island has the
unused Internet country
code top-level domain
(ccTLD) .bv.
It also has an amateur radio
prefix, 3Y, and a few
amateur radio expeditions
have travelled to the island
to use it. There is no
telephone country code or
area code, no telephone
connection (except through
satellite) and no postal code
nor postal distribution.
Bouvet Island is according to
Norwegian law in the
UTC+01 time zone