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Jan Mayen is a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean located at the border of the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea. The single island covers an area of 377 square kilometres (146 sq mi) and is dominated by the 2,277-metre (7,470 ft) tall Beerenberg volcano.
A portion of a 1599 map of Arctic exploration by Willem Barentsz. In the Golden Age of Dutch exploration and discovery ( c. 1590s –1720s), Dutch navigators were the first explorers and mapped many largely unknown isolated areas of the world, including the Svalbard archipelago and Jan Mayen in the Arctic Ocean.
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Icelandic: Svalbarði og Jan Mayen; Ido: Svalbard; Igbo: Svalbard & Jan Mayen; Iloko: Svalbard; Indonesian: Kepulauan Svalbard; Indonesian: Kepulauan Svalbard dan Jan Mayen; Indonesian: Svalbard; Interlingua: Svalbard e Jan Mayen; Interlingue: Svalbard; Irish: Oileánra Svalbard; Irish: Svalbard agus Jan Mayen; Italian: Svalbard; Italian ...
A map of Jan Mayen during the Golden Age of Dutch exploration and discovery (c. 1590s–1720s). This is a typical map created by Dutch cartographers from the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography. The first verified discoveries of Jan Mayen, by three separate expeditions, occurred in the summer of 1614, probably within one month of each other.
The Norwegian Polar Institute is Norway's main producer of topographical and geological maps in Norwegian polar regions and is responsible for the topographic mapping of Svalbard, Jan Mayen in the north and Bouvetøya and the Norwegian dependent territories in the Antarctic.
Oct 15, 2014 · Jan Mayen is approximately 34 miles long and a bit over a mile wide at its narrowest. On the map, it looks like a spoon with a thin handle to the southwest, the large bowl of the active 7,470-foot high volcano Beerenberg in the northeast, and a narrow saddle of land in the middle.
Thematic maps for Svalbard: Geological Map DML (Dronning Maud Land) Thematic map for Antarctica: TopoSvalbard: Topographic map over Svalbard: TopoJanMayen: Topographic map over Jan Mayen: Barentsportalen: Thematic maps for the Barents regionen
