Jan Mayen Loran-C transmitter

Jan Mayen Loran-C transmitter
Jan Mayen Loran-C transmitter (Europe)
Coordinates70°54′51″N 8°43′57″W / 70.91417°N 8.73250°W / 70.91417; -8.73250
Built1960
Demolished2017

The Jan Mayen Loran-C transmitter was a Loran-C transmission facility on the island of Jan Mayen, north east of Iceland and belonging to Norway. The transmitter had a 190-metre tall (625 ft) guyed mast. It was a secondary transmitter in the Bø chain, and a secondary transmitter in the Eiði chain.

This mast was built to replace a 190.5-metre-tall (625 ft) mast, which collapsed in a storm on 8 October, 1980 as the result of low tension on the guy-wires.

Both transmitters on Jan Mayen, together with the other Norwegian Loran-C transmitters at Bø, and those at Eiði in the Danish Faroe Islands, were shut down at midnight on 31 December, 2015.

The mast was demolished in 2017.

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