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Lorsta Bø Norway - Information on the navigation system Loran-C, the broadcast stystem Eurofix, and the Norwegian stations, including the one on Jan-Mayen.
Norwegian Polar Institute - The Norwegian Polar Institute is Norway's central institution for research, environmental monitoring and mapping of the polar regions. The Institute is the Norwegian authorities' consultant and supplier of knowledge, and contributes to the best possible administration of Norwegian polar areas. Covers Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Jan Mayen, Norway Forecast - From Weather Underground
Geomagnetic data - Geomagnetic data from the Auroral Observatory (Nordlysobservatoriet) Faculty of Science, University of Tromsø, Norway
Beerenberg Volcano - Jan Mayen - Pictures of the northernmost active volcano on earth under its ice shield during a french scientific survey of the Beerenberg volcano.
Beerenberg - Jan Mayen - Information about Beerenberg, a stratovolcano, is the northern-most active subaerial volcano on Earth
An Expedition to Beerenberg - Page 1 of 3 - Facts, pictures and a nice hike to the top of the volcano.
Jan Mayen - A personal collection of photographs of people, buildings, and natural features. (In English and Norwegian)
Bjørn's Hjemmeside - Welcome to Jan Mayen, Norway.
Map of Jan Mayen Island - Small map, 1997. A tiny island, owned by Norway, located in the Atlantic north of Iceland.
Flag of Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands - Provides a flag for these 2 countries, among with useful information about them.
World Factbook on Jan Mayen - From the CIA.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Jan Mayen Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine Jan Mayen It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Jan Mayen I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Jan Mayen Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John Jan Mayen Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Jan Mayen If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Jan Mayen A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. -- Erma Bombeck If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Jan Mayen Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. -- Anonymous My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder There is no sincerer love than the love of food. -- George Bernard Shaw Jan Mayen Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind. -- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Jan Mayen The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Jan Mayen If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Jan Mayen CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Jan Mayen Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Jan Mayen "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Jan Mayen Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James Jan Mayen Art and science have their meeting point in method. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Jan Mayen I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Jan Mayen Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin Jan Mayen "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Jan Mayen Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Jan Mayen I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. -- Michel de Montaigne Jan Mayen
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