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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.
Jan Mayen (Urban East Norwegian: [jɑn ˈmɑ̀ɪən]) 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 ).
Jan Mayen, island, part of the Kingdom of Norway, in the Greenland Sea of the Arctic Ocean, about 300 mi (500 km) east of Greenland. It is approximately 35 mi long and 9 mi across at its widest point, with an area of 144 sq mi (373 sq km).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The island is approximately 55 km long from southwest to northeast and covers an area of about 373 square kilometers (see map). The northeast part of the island, Nord-Jan, is home to Beerenberg, an active volcano that last erupted in 1985.
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Apr 28, 2022 · The volcanic island of Jan Mayen sprouts from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) at 71 o north between the Greenland and the Norwegian Seas, 500-km above
Nov 14, 2023 · 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 spectacular scenic centre point of Jan Mayen is the 2277 meter high glacier-covered volcano Beerenberg with its symmetrical cone shape. Jan Mayen was discovered early in the 17th century and became part of Norway in 1930. There is an active Norwegian military and weather station.
