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Oct 15, 2014 · Jan Mayen, the most northerly island along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, is one of them. As a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow on a Lindblad Expeditions adventure into the High Arctic, I had an amazing opportunity to visit this remote volcanic island spilling five glaciers into the Arctic Ocean on July 6, 2014. Geography
Jurisdiction — In general — Territorial — Continental shelf — Principles of delimitation — Islands — Draft Convention on the Law of the Sea, 1980 — Joint development of continental shelf area by two States — Jurisdiction in particular parts of the area — Applicable legislation
shortest distance between Iceland and Jan Mayen is about 290 nautical miles. During the negotiations of the aforementioned agreement the Icelandic Government advanced the view that Iceland...
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Jan Mayen is a remote Norwegian island located at 71°N/8°W in the Arctic Ocean, about 600 kilometers northeast of Iceland, 500 km east of Greenland, and approximately 1000 km west of Norway.
4.1. Ægir Basin. On 20 September 2006 an agreement was made in the form of Agreed Minutes between Iceland, Denmark on behalf of the Faroe Islands, and Norway on the delimitation of the continental shelf beyond 200 M between Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway in the Ægir Basin area.
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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 p (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 ).
Location. Northern Europe, island between the Greenland Sea and the Norwegian Sea, northeast of Iceland. Geographic coordinates. 71 00 N, 8 00 W. Map references. Arctic Region. Area. total: 377 sq km. land: 377 sq km. water: 0 sq km. country comparison to the world: 205. Area - comparative. slightly more than twice the size of Washington, DC.
