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- 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).
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Oct 15, 2014 · Geography. 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.
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 ). It has two parts: larger northeast Nord-Jan and smaller Sør-Jan, linked by a 2.5 km (1.6 mi) wide isthmus.
- 377 km² (146 sq mi)
- 0 (up to 35 non-permanent residents)
- 2,277 m (7470 ft)
- Arctic Ocean
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
Sep 11, 2022 · September 2022 - 09:00. The Earth's crust is made of seven large continental plates. But the crust also contains several microcontinents. The vast majority are hidden far down in the deep seas. However, the most typical microcontinent of them all may be Jan Mayen.
- Bård Amundsen
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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. The island is approximately 55 km long from southwest to northeast and covers an area of about 373 square kilometers (see map).
6 days ago · 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)
Apr 28, 2022 · A remote Arctic outpost. 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 the Arctic Circle.
