![]() Both the LORAN transmitter and the meteorological station are located a few kilometres away from the settlement Olonkinbyen (Olonkin Town), where all personnel live. The military personnel operated a Loran-C base until it closed at the end of 2015. ![]() The support crew, including mechanics, cooks, and a nurse, are among the military personnel. Personnel serve either six months or one year and are exchanged twice a year in April and October. ![]() Eighteen people spend the winter on the island, but the population may roughly double (35) during the summer, when heavy maintenance is performed. The only inhabitants on the island are personnel working for the Norwegian Armed Forces and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Geologists suspect significant deposits of petroleum and natural gas lie below Jan Mayen's surrounding seafloors. A dispute between Norway and Denmark regarding the fishing exclusion zone between Jan Mayen and Greenland was settled in 1988 granting Denmark the greater area of sovereignty. License for deep sea mining is now under consideration. In total, it is estimated that the amount of copper could amount to 21.7 million tonnes, but other estimates are around 7 million tonnes. The expeditions have also discovered high concentrations of lithium and rare earth metal scandium. Norway has found large deposits of minerals along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Jan Mayen and southern Svalbard/Bear Island, including copper, zinc, cobalt, gold and silver. ![]() There are important fishing resources, and the existence of Jan Mayen establishes a large exclusive economic zone around it. The 124.1 km (77.1 mi) coast has no ports or harbours, only offshore anchorages. Jan Mayen has one unpaved airstrip, Jan Mayensfield, which is about 1,585 m (5,200 ft) long. Other than this, economic activity is limited to providing services for employees of Norway's radio communications and meteorological stations located on the island. Jan Mayen Island has one exploitable natural resource, gravel, from a site located at Trongskaret. Kármán vortex street created by Beerenberg volcano in the westerly winds. Jan Mayen is home to Beerenberg, which is the northernmost active volcano in the world. Īlthough administered separately, in the ISO 3166-1 standard, Jan Mayen and Svalbard are collectively designated as Svalbard and Jan Mayen, with the two-letter country code "SJ". Jan Mayen was formed by the Jan Mayen hotspot and is defined by geologists as a microcontinent. A third lake is called Ullerenglaguna (Ullereng Lagoon). The isthmus is the location of the two largest lakes of the island, Sørlaguna (South Lagoon) and Nordlaguna (North Lagoon). The island is mountainous, the highest summit being the Beerenberg volcano in the north. It lies 600 km (370 mi) northeast of Iceland (495 km NE of Kolbeinsey), 500 km (310 mi) east of central Greenland, and 900 km (560 mi) northwest of Vesterålen, Norway. It has two parts: larger northeast Nord-Jan and smaller Sør-Jan, linked by a 2.5 km (1.6 mi) wide isthmus. 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 ( Urban East Norwegian: ) is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population. ![]()
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