Europe > Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
Svalbard and Jan Mayen is a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1 of two parts of Norway located in the Arctic Ocean under separate jurisdictions: Svalbard and Jan Mayen. While the two are combined for the purposes of the ISO category, they are not administratively related. While the arctic archipelago of Svalbard is under the full sovereignty of Norway, it has a special status recognized by the Svalbard Treaty, resulting in certain obligations and some differences in administration and international agreements by the Norwegian government. For instance, Svalbard is not covered by the Schengen Agreement, which applies to the rest of Norway (including Jan Mayen). Immigrants may also work and live in Svalbard without a visa. Svalbard is administered by a governor reporting to the Norwegian Minister of Justice. The remote island of Jan Mayen is an integrated territory of Norway, and it has none of the special considerations applicable to Svalbard. From 1930 to 1994 it was administered by the governor of Svalbard, and since 1995 it has been administered from the mainland by the county governor of Nordland. Therefore, Jan Mayen does not have any immediate geographic (with the two territories about 1,000 km apart) or otherwise administrative connection to Svalbard.
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The Governor of Svalbard [more]
http://www.sysselmannen.svalbard.no/">The Governor of Svalbard
Facts, pictures and a nice hike to the top of the volcano.
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/arctic_ocean/expedition.html
Information about Beerenberg, a stratovolcano, is the northern-most active subaerial volcano on Earth
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/arctic_ocean/beerenberg.html
Pictures of the northernmost active volcano on earth under its ice shield during a french scientific survey of the Beerenberg volcano.
http://geo.hmg.inpg.fr/caplain/janmayen/
Personal homepage. Information about the Bjerrang family, hobbies and polar expeditions. Webcams. (Some of the information is in Norwegian.)
http://home.online.no/~polar-ps/
Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
http://home.online.no/~fredriks/janm/
Provides a flag for these 2 countries, among with useful information about them.
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/sj.html
Geomagnetic data from the Auroral Observatory (Nordlysobservatoriet) Faculty of Science, University of Tromsø, Norway
http://geo.phys.uit.no/geomag.html
A personal collection of photographs of people, buildings, and natural features. (In English and Norwegian)
http://home.no.net/dagazo/
From Weather Underground
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/01001.html
Information on the navigation system Loran-C, the broadcast stystem Eurofix, and the Norwegian stations, including the one on Jan-Mayen.
http://home.online.no/~loran-c/
Information about the observatory, contact information, data from selected instruments (magnetometer, meridian scanning photometer, ebert-fastie spectrometers, meridian imaging spectrograph and all sky camera). Weather data from Adventdalen.
http://haldde.unis.no/
Offers planning assistance and organization of expeditions and media visits, guiding, journalistic work and tv-productions in the polar area.
http://www.nox.no/
Travel agency and tour operator located in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen. Accommodation, adventure tours, on-line booking. (Site in English and Norwegian.)
http://www.spitsbergentravel.no/eng_index.htm
Maps, photos and webcams of Spitsbergen and Svalbard.
http://www.svalbard-images.com/
Offers snowmobile safaris and snowmobile rental. On-line booking. (In English and Norwegian.)
http://www.scooterutleie.svalbard.no/
Tourist information for the arctic archipelago Svalbard and Spitsbergen. Facts page, information about climate, flora, birds and animals.
http://www.svalbard.net/
Svalbard Satellite Station, Norwegian Space Centre. Facts, information about services, list of customers and image gallery.
http://www.svalsat.com/
Information and links related to the arctic archipelago Svalbard. Lists commercial companies, public services, tourist information, frequently asked questions and a picture gallery.
http://www.svalbard.com/
Historical information from Statistics Norway and 24 hour real time temperature log.
http://www.svalbard.com/weather.html
Documents Svalbard, its nature, wildlife and Arctic environment. English and Swedish languages.
http://www.svalbardproject.com
News and information about UNIS. Information about the university studies, course catalogue, rules of entry and application form. Research, staff, vacant positions, and library.
http://www.unis.no/
A polar station located on north-western Spitsbergen owned by Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland. Publications, maps and photo gallery.
http://ww.umk.pl/~geopolar/stacja/english.htm
Travel guide with intelligent maps and online reservation for hotels and airfare.
http://www.travelgis.com/default.asp?framesrc=/sv/