Norway's Forgotten Island
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Sep 25, 2026 17:00
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Lost in the frozen seas between Greenland and Norway sits Jan Mayen: an active volcanic outpost home to zero permanent residents, but 18-35 constant temporary ones. A lesser known WWII battlefield codenamed "Island X," and one of the potential centers of an escalating modern conflict over Arctic mineral wealth. Why does this tiny strip of land dominated by the world’s northernmost active volcano matter so much to global superpowers? From 17th-century Dutch whaling, German air raids and Norwegian annexation, in this video we go into the history of Norway's "forgotten" island.
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