The Bouvet Island DXpedition team has announced that its permit to land on Bouvet Island for a DXpedition has been updated, revised, and approved by the Norsk Polar Institute. The 3Y0Z call sign will hit the airwaves in early 2018. Bouvet is the second most-wanted DXCC entity. 

An international team of pilots has been selected to serve as an interface between the DXpedition team and the worldwide DX community.

The seasoned 20-member Bouvet Island 2018 DXpedition team will cover one-half of the venture’s cost out of their own pockets and is encouraging support from the DX community for the rest.

A dependency of Norway, Bouvet is a subantarctic island in the South Atlantic. The last Bouvet activation was 3Y0E, during a scientific expedition over the winter of 2007-2008.