Word: bouvet
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...cold-eyed, square-jawed Admiral had a job to do. Somewhere to the south lay barren and uninhabited Bouvet Island, discovered in 1739 and later ''lost'' by the chartmakers. Several years ago Norway and Britain fell to arguing over who owned it. Norway won. But then someone discovered that they had been talking about two different islands. The Admiralty told Vice Admiral Evans to find Bouvet. As soon as the wind fell last week, Admiral Evans pushed on south. Two days later the radio station at Simonstown, South Africa, caught a laconic message: "Have found Bouvet...