SVALBARD & JAN MAYEN ISLANDS
Svalbard and Jan Mayen are two Norwegian-administered territories in the Arctic Ocean, separated by several hundred kilometers and distinct in their legal and administrative status. Svalbard, the larger and more populated of the two, is governed under the 1920 Svalbard Treaty, which grants Norway sovereignty while allowing citizens of signatory nations to live and work there without a visa, and its main settlement, Longyearbyen, is one of the northernmost permanent communities in the world. Jan Mayen is an uninhabited volcanic island maintained solely as a Norwegian meteorological and military station.
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