Cape Valdivia is the northernmost point on Bouvet Island

Bouvet Island

Bouvet Island is an uninhabited Antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,525 km south-southwest of South Africa. It is a dependent territory of Norway and, lying north of 60°S latitude, is not subject to the Antarctic Treaty. The centre of the island is an ice-filled crater of an...

, a subantarctic

Subantarctic

The Subantarctic is a region in the southern hemisphere, located immediately north of the Antarctic region. This translates roughly to a latitude of between 46° – 60° south of the Equator. The subantarctic region includes many islands in the southern parts of the Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and...

 island administered by Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It lies in the centre of the island's north coast, immediately to the north of Olav Peak

Olav Peak

Olav Peak is the highest point on Norway's subantarctic Bouvet island. It is located in the centre north of the island and rises to a height of 780 metres. It lies immediately to the south of Cape Valdivia, the island's northernmost point....

, the island's highest point. To the west lies Cape Circoncision, from which Cape Valdivia is separated by a five kilometre stretch of coastline known as the Morgenstiern Coast.

The cape derives its name from the German survey ship Valdivia, which fixed the position of Bouvet island in 1898.