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SJ. Jan Mayen ( Urban East Norwegian: [jɑn ˈmɑ̀ɪən]) [1] is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population. It is 55 km (34 mi) long (southwest-northeast) and 373 km 2 (144 sq mi) in area, partly covered by glaciers (an area of 114.2 km 2 (44.1 sq mi) around the Beerenberg volcano ).
The Jan Mayen class is a Norwegian Coast Guard ship class built in the 2020s, that was designed and ordered to replace the ageing Nordkapp -class offshore patrol vessels . Considerably larger than their predecessors, the hulls of these ships were constructed at the Vard Tulcea shipyard in Romania. [1] The hulls were then towed to Norway where ...
Twelfth batch (April 2, 2017) Izzy Canillo (2011–2017; now a freelance artist) Thirteenth batch (February 25, 2018) Bea Basa (2011–2018) Clarence Delgado (2011–2018; moved to Sparkle GMA Artist Center) Mitch Briones (2014–2018, graduated to Team Yey!) Fourteenth batch (March 10, 2019) JB Agustin (2013-2019) Allyson McBride (2013–2019)
Mar 12, 2021 · Contractors involved. iXblue was contracted by Vard Group to deliver navigation technologies for the P6615 Jan Mayen class vessels in January 2021. Kongsberg Maritime secured a contract from Vard to supply sonars for the coast guard vessels in August 2020. The sonars will be delivered with retractable hull units and gate valves for ice protection.
Both Svalbard and Jan Mayen consist almost entirely of Arctic wilderness, such as at Bellsund in Svalbard. Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The group of islands range from 74° to 81° north latitude, and from 10° to 35° east longitude. [1] [2] The area is 61,022 square ...
The Jan Mayen Microcontinent is a fragment of continental crust within the oceanic part of the western Eurasian Plate lying northeast of Iceland. At the onset of separation between the Greenland and Eurasian plates 55 million years ago, it formed part of the eastern margin of the Greenland Plate. Propagation of a new spreading center from the ...
Societies. Jan Mayen. History. This desolate, arctic, mountainous island was named after a Dutch whaling captain who indisputably discovered it in 1614 (earlier claims are inconclusive). Visited only occasionally by seal hunters and trappers over the following centuries, the island came under Norwegian sovereignty in 1929.
