Relationship dossier
Bouvet Island
Norway
Relationship assessment
Bouvet Island is an uninhabited Norwegian dependency administered by Norway.
Bouvet Island toward Norway
Not assessedNorway toward Bouvet Island
+25Norway exercises sovereignty and administration over Bouvet Island and designated the island a nature reserve in 1971.
Overall relationship
Not assessedHow to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Bouvet Island is an uninhabited Norwegian dependency, not a sovereign state with an independent foreign policy. Norway exercises sovereignty and administration over the island and designated it a nature reserve in 1971. The island has no separate government policy toward Norway.
Key developments
Norway designated Bouvet Island a nature reserve.
Major uncertainties
- Details of Norway's current administrative arrangements for Bouvet Island are unclear.