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1 day ago · The three new Jan Mayen-class ships are armed with a 57 mm (2.2 in) main gun and are capable of operating up to two medium-sized helicopters. The ships have a maximum speed is 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) with more than 60 days endurance and the complement is up to 100 people. The first ship, KV Jan Mayen, was delivered in early 2023.
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1 day ago · Svalbard and Jan Mayen - June 3, 2024 A groundbreaking study led by scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has uncovered the significant impact of atmospheric blocking on the rapid ...
May 15, 2024 · barren volcanic spoon-shaped island with some moss and grass flora; island consists of two parts: a larger northeast Nord-Jan (the spoon "bowl") and the smaller Sor-Jan (the "handle"), linked by a 2.5 km-wide isthmus (the "stem") with two large lakes, Sorlaguna (South Lagoon) and Nordlaguna (North Lagoon)
The explorers in that novel go down into the Snæfellsjökull volcano in Iceland, travel through the underground world, and exit from Stromboli in Italy. (Of course, Snæfellsjökull isn't in Jan Mayen, though at one point a character mistakenly thinks they're in Jan Mayen.) That second review also mentions coming back for a honeymoon, and the ...
May 10, 2024 · Some 660 kilometres (410 miles) north of mainland Norway’s northernmost top, the 39,500-square-kilometre (15,251 square miles) Spitsbergen Island is nestled in the sapphire shades of the Arctic Ocean. While you might imagine a desolate island with little intrigue, the opposite is true. In fact, it’s a flourishing paradise for Arctic flora ...
4 days ago · Jan Mayen is located approx 600 km (370 mi) northeast of Iceland, approx 500 km (310 mi) east of Greenland and approx 1000 km (620 mi) west of North Cape Norway. The island has two separate parts: bigger (Nord-Jan) and smaller (Sor-Jan) linked by an isthmus (a narrow piece of land) with width of 2,5 km (1,6 mi).
May 22, 2024 · to top. History: On 1 May 1943 a ski jumping competition was held on Jan Mayen island in the Arctic Ocean, on a snow jump at the south-eastern slope of mount Danielssenkrateret. 15 jumpers took part, around half of the weathermen and soldiers on the island, most of them taking turns jumping on one pair of jumping skis that had been sent from Iceland earlier that winter.
