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Is the World’s Biggest Wave Hiding at Bouvet Island, the Most Remote Spot on Earth?
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Is the World’s Biggest Wave Hiding at Bouvet Island, the Most Remote Spot on Earth?

Surfer·Dashel Pierson·about 2 months ago
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Surfers are relentless in their search for pure, untouched perfection. Explorers have scoured the corners of the planet, but there are still a few stones left unturned. Now, it may have led to the most remote island on Earth. In a recent video, Maui big-wave charger Ridge Lenny revealed his latest discovery: massive waves breaking off the world’s most remote island. See more below. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xTOAD9vdkwg Bouvet Island is a tiny, glacier-covered Norwegian territory marooned in the South Atlantic Ocean roughly 1,000 miles from Antarctica and more than 1,500 miles from the nearest inhabited land. On satellite imagery, Lenny noticed something intriguing. “The raw swell energy that slams into this place is utterly insane,” he said. But it’s not just the ocean energy. A series of underwater reefs and headlands appear to funnel massive Southern Ocean swell into a single zone, where intersecting wave trains converge into giant wedging peaks.…

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