Norway's Seldom-Visited Jan Mayen Island
Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic guests on a circumnavigation of Iceland take a short detour to land at Jan Mayen Island, the northernmost island on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and part of Norway. Video by Sarah Culler.
Expedition Spotlight: Exploring Remote Jan Mayen Island | Arctic | Lindblad Expeditions
Located in the remote North Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Norway, the island of Jan Mayen is challenging to reach—but those who make the journey are rewarded with stunning geology and a surreal, lunar landscape. Hiking on the soft, black sand, you can walk amongst ash cones, lava flows, and towering cliffs and witness Beerenberg, the island’s still-active volcano. In this episode of Expedition Spotlight, expedition leader Michael Jackson reveals what makes the world’s northernmost volcanic island so unique.
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Jan Mayen – a Norwegian island with an active volcano in the Arctic
Jan Mayen is a Norwegian volcanic island situated in the Arctic Ocean, partly covered by glaciers around the Beerenberg volcano. The Beerenberg is the world's northernmost active volcano over sea level. Norway built on Jan Mayen a meteorological observatory and a radio station, and in 1929 annexed the island. The main settlement on the island is Olonkinbyen, located a few kilometres away from the radio and the meteorological station.
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Voyage to Beerenberg: Scaling The Volcanic Peak of Jan Mayen
Straum assembled an expedition unit and set off in search of the summit of Beerenberg. This is the story of how it went.
It is thanks to Beerenberg Volcano that the island exists at all. Dominating the northern part of Jan Mayen, the world’s northernmost active stratovolcano bursts straight up from the Arctic Ocean, culminating in its fearsome peak, 2,277m above the sea level. Inspired by this foreboding mountain, Straum’s founders assembled an expedition unit and set off in search of the summit.
The goal of the mission was clear: To study the rarely disturbed nature of the island, its geology, and the volatile weather systems that frequently batter its shores.
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