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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 ).
- 377 km² (146 sq mi)
- 0 (up to 35 non-permanent residents)
- 2,277 m (7470 ft)
- Arctic Ocean
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 ...
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 ...
- 61,399 km² (23,706 sq mi)
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.
The island is located at approximately 71º N and 8º W, and it is about 54 km long by 15 km wide. It is roughly hour-glass shaped with the northern portion called Nord Jan and the southern, Sår Jan. The highest point is Beerenberg volcano on Nord Jan at 2,277 m (7468'). Tectonically the island sits on the margin of a large transform fault ...
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.
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.
