| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Jan Mayen Island |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Jan May·en Island |
| PRONUNCIATION: | yän m  n |
| An island of Norway in the Greenland Sea between northern Norway and Greenland. Discovered by Henry Hudson in 1607, it was annexed by Norway in 1929.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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