Jan Mayen Island


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Jan May·en Island

 (yän mī′ən)
An island of Norway in the Greenland Sea between northern Norway and Greenland. Discovered by Henry Hudson in 1607, it was annexed by Norway in 1929.
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At the end of his report, he wrote: "Overall time from north of Jan Mayen Island to Bletchley Park: three days 14 hours."
From travel agent to a secret agent; Today Bletchley Park celebrates the 75th anniversary of the breaking of the Enigma code, thanks to the capture of a German U-boat with her codebooks on board. Author and historian HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORI highlights the part played by a naval intelligence officer from Newcastle
US submarine took photos of strange sighting THE most compelling evidence came from US submarine USS Trepang, which was moving between Iceland and Jan Mayen Island in the Atlantic Ocean.
close encounters of the kind! chase; Back in 1971, the residents of a small corner of the West Midlands experienced a huge upsurge in the number of UFO sightings. MIKE LOCKLEY reports
On 18 June 1942, the SKL directed that Admiral Arctic be responsible for the conduct of U-boat warfare against enemy traffic and escorts in the area east of the Denmark Strait and Jan Mayen Island. The weight of the main effort (Schwerpunkt) was to be the employment of U-boats against PQ convoys; however, should an Allied landing occur, the main effort would shift to enemy transports and escorts.
The destruction of Convoy PQ17: 27 June-10 July 1942
The second earthquake is the Jan Mayen Island earthquake ([M.sub.[omega]] = 6.8) occurred at 13:43:24 on August 30, 2012 (UT) with the epicenter of (71.461[degrees]N, 10.919[degrees]W) and the depth at 9.9 km.
Ionospheric anomalies related to the (M = 7.3), August 27, 2012, Puerto earthquake, (M = 6.8), August 30, 2012 Jan Mayen Island earthquake, and (M = 7.6), August 31, 2012, Philippines earthquake: two-dimensional principal component analysis

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