There are two examples: Iceland, which is the world's second largest volcanic island, and Jan Mayen — both are in the Atlantic.

Jan Mayen Island is a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean and part of the Kingdom of Norway.

Jan Mayen was formed by the Jan Mayen hotspot.

Landings at Jan Mayen can be done by boat.

Jan Mayen Island has one exploitable natural resource, gravel, from the site at Trongskaret.

There are important fishing resources, and the existence of Jan Mayen establishes a large Exclusive Economic Zone around it.

A modern-day 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.

Jan Mayen Island is an integral part of the Kingdom of Norway, and it is not considered to be a dependency with some special status.

Since 1995, Jan Mayen has been administered by the County Governor ( fylkesmann ) of the northern Norwegian county of Nordland to which it is closest.

However, some authority over Jan Mayen has been assigned to the station commander of the Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation, a branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces.

A beach on Jan Mayen

There are claims of earlier discoveries: some historians believe an Irish monk, Brendan, who was known as a good sailor, was close to Jan Mayen in the early sixth century.

The land named Svalbarð (" cold coast ") by the Vikings in the early medieval book Landnámabók may have been Jan Mayen ( instead of Spitsbergen, renamed Svalbard by the Norwegians in modern times ); the distance from Iceland to Svalbarð mentioned in this book is two days sailing, consistent with the approximate to Jan Mayen and not with the approximate to Spitsbergen.

The knowledge of Jan Mayen probably disappeared along with the Viking colonies on Greenland around the 14th century.

Muller ( 1874: pp. 190 – 191 ) took this to mean they had come upon Jan Mayen in 1611 or 1612, which was repeated by many subsequent authors.

Jan Mayen was discovered in the summer of 1614, probably within one month, by three separate expeditions.

Two of its ships, financed by merchants from Amsterdam and Enkhuizen, reached Jan Mayen in July 1614.

Due to mutual agreements with foreign clubs, the youth academy has also signed foreign players as teenagers before making first team debuts, such as Belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen ( now with Arsenal ) and winger Tom de Mul ( now with Sevilla ), all of whom are full internationals as well as Dutch youth international Javier Martina and Vurnon Anita of the Netherlands Antilles.

The most common compound of chlorine, sodium chloride, has been known since ancient times ; however, around 1630, chlorine gas was obtained by the Belgian chemist and physician Jan Baptist van Helmont.

Jan refers to everyone as " poppet " and " darling " and has extravagantly camp mannerisms, but is in fact practical and efficient.

Jan Mayen has a hyperoceanic polar climate, similar to Greenland and Svalbard, with a Köppen classification of ET.

Jan Karon is an American writer and novelist, who has written for both children and adults.

The interview has been declared fraudulent by Brahms biographer Jan Swafford.

Singer-songwriter Sting has also played lute and archlute, in and out of his collaborations with Edin Karamazov, and Jan Akkerman released two albums of lute music in the 1970s while he was a guitarist in the Dutch rock band Focus.

Jan Kotlarz of MSP has created RODM software for the modeling of the Martian surface based on high resolution photographs from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

In film there has been an adaptation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and also the movie Pelíšky from director Jan Hřebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovský, which depicts the events of the Prague Spring and ends with the invasion by the Soviet Union and their allies.

It has been suggested that the concept of state capitalism can be traced back to Mikhail Bakunin's critique during the First International of the potential for state exploitation under Marxism, or to Jan Waclav Machajski's argument in The Intellectual Worker ( 1905 ) that socialism was a movement of the intelligentsia as a class, resulting in a new type of society he termed state capitalism.

Ulam's colleague at Colorado, Jan Mycielski, has given his perspective on Ulam's contributions to mathematics.

For example, it has been used to describe the death of Jan Masaryk, who was found below the bathroom window of the building of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 10 March 1948.

Bergkamp has been described by Jan Mulder as having " the finest technique " of any Dutch international and a " dream for a striker " by teammate Thierry Henry.

Jan van Eyck has often been linked as brother to painter and peer Hubert van Eyck, because both have been thought to originate from the same town in Belgium.

The division of surviving works between Hubert, early Jan van Eyck, and other painters has been the subject of great debate among art historians, involving the Ghent Altarpiece, the Turin-Milan Hours and other pieces.

In a recent article on Science Daily ( Jan. 21 2009 ) a team of scientists led by a cosmologist from the U. S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has made major progress in extending the use of gravitational lensing to the study of much older and smaller structures than was previously possible by stating that weak gravitational lensing improves measurements of distant galaxies .< ref >

This hypothesis has been accepted by more recent scholars such as Jan Assmann and George Hart.

Many American cinematographers have gone on to become directors themselves: Barry Sonnenfeld, originally the Coen brothers ' DP, has gone on to have success as a director ; Jan de Bont, cinematographer on films as Die Hard and Basic Instinct went on to direct Speed and Twister.

He is one of the figures on the Prussian Homage painting by Jan Matejko.

The Hussites ( or Kališníci ; " Chalice People ") were a Christian movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus ( c. 1369 – 1415 ), who became one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation.

Only two ships, one from the Noordsche Compagnie, and the other from the Delft merchants, were off Jan Mayen in 1615.

During the International Polar Year 1882-1883 the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition stayed one year at Jan Mayen.

In 1959, NATO decided to build the LORAN-C network in the Atlantic Ocean, and one of the transmitters had to be on Jan Mayen.

Jan and Brian Wilson collaborated on roughly a dozen hits and album cuts for Jan and Dean, including the number one national hit " Surf City ", written by Brian Wilson, in 1963.

Show and the legendary list of performers ( including a performance by James Brown that many critics have called the best of his career ) marked a high point for Jan and Dean, as they were the hosts and one of the main featured acts as well.

Mácha's genius was discovered and glorified much later by the poets and novelists of the 1850s ( e. g., Jan Neruda, Vítězslav Hálek, and Karolina Světlá ) and " Máj " is now regarded as the classic work of Czech Romanticism and is considered one of the best Czech poems ever written.

In one of the clearest signs of Soviet control over the region, the Czechoslovakian foreign minister, Jan Masaryk, was summoned to Moscow and berated by Stalin for thinking of joining the Marshall Plan.

In 1926, together with Vilém Mathesius and others he became one of the founders of the " Prague school " of linguistic theory ( other members included Nikolai Trubetzkoi, René Wellek, Jan Mukařovský ).

Alma-Tadema left Taeye ’ s studio in November 1858 returning to Leeuwarden before settling in Antwerp, where he began working with the painter Baron Jan August Hendrik Leys, whose studio was one of the most highly regarded in Belgium.

Lieutenant-General Jan Smuts at one time estimated them at 2, 000 Germans and 16, 000 Askaris, with 60 guns and 80 machine guns, but this should prove to be below the mark.

* Jan van Eyck ( before – before 1441 ), Early Netherlandish painter, considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century.

In the 15th century, one of the lords of Tilburg, Jan van Haestrecht, built Tilburg Castle.

The faculties of astronomy, law and theology attracted eminent scholars: for example, John Cantius, Stanisław of Skarbimierz, Paweł Włodkowic, Jan of Głogów, and Albert Brudzewski, who from 1491 to 1495 was one of Nicolaus Copernicus's teachers.

In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, on Jan, 2010, the US Supreme court ruled that corporations and unions can not constitutionally be prohibited from promoting the election of one candidate over another candidate.

Early inventory included two B-25 Mitchells, one B-26 Invader ( piloted by Polish pilot Jan Zumbach, known also as John Brown ), a converted DC-3 and one Dove.

Popular legends include an ox named " Bloem " owned by one of the pioneer farmers that was taken by a lion near a fountain on his property, while another story names Jan Blom ( 1775 – 1858 ), a Korana KhoiKhoi leader who inhabited the area.

Jan van Eyck ( or Johannes de Eyck ) (; before c. 1395 – before c. 9 July 1441 ) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and is generally considered one of the most significant Northern European painters of the 15th century.