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2002 EB5 entered the Earth's atmosphere near Iceland and Jan Mayen close to midnight on March 11, 2002.

Jan Mayen is an uninhabited island, north of Iceland and south of Svalbard. Administratively it is part of Norway.

In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, whalers intermittently maintained whale processing facilities on the Island.

During World War II the Allies maintained a small weather station for most of the war. Germany tried and failed to establish its own weather station there.

In 2010 Norway declared the Island a Nature Reserve.