The voyage will go to the volcanic Mohns Ridge between Jan Mayen and
Bjornoya, a sea area that is still virtually unexplored.
The seventy-square-mile Bear Island (
Bjornoya) is the southernmost of the Svalbards.
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov thought the treaty should have been "thrown in the trashcan" in the 1940s; that sovereignty over the southernmost island in the archipelago, Bear Island (
Bjornoya), more properly (that is, historically) belonged to Russia anyway, and that a Russo-Norwegian condominium should administer the remainder.
5), as well as stations on Jan Mayen and
Bjornoya, and on Hopen and elsewhere on Svalbard.
The first well will be on the Skrugard block, between
Bjornoya and the Snohvit fields, to be drilled with the semi-submersible drilling rig Polar Pioneer.
Both the Luftwaffe and the German navy began training men, designing and establishing weather stations, both manned and automatic, in the North Atlantic, on the east coast of Greenland, Spitsbergen, Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa, Hopen and
Bjornoya Islands and Labrador.
Intraspecific variation in trophic feeding levels and organochlorine concentrations in glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) from
Bjornoya, the Barents Sea.
Hjelsoy and
Bjornoya, the main common guillemot breeding areas in Norway, experienced a dramatic decline in both colonies due to the overfishing of capelin in the Barents Sea in 1985 and 1986.
Traveling in a former sealing ship, the Terningen, they camped on
Bjornoya (Bear Island), because it had an "enormous population of sea-birds, especially Guillemots," on 13-23 June 1921; on Prins Karls Forland, off the west coast of Spitsbergen north of Isfjord, on 30 June-10 July; and near the great Nordenskjold Glacier at the head of Klaas-Billen Bay on 19 July-16 August.
The exploration zone lies 190 kilometres offshore Norway, between the Snohvit field and the Arctic island of
Bjornoya.
In
Bjornoya, Svalbard, the number of breeding pairs (from 1986), adult survival, and breeding success are monitored annually by the Norwegian Polar Institute.