Andrée Island is an island lying in Recess Cove,

Charlotte Bay Charlotte Bay is a bay on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula indenting the west coast of Graham Land in a southeast direction for , between Reclus Peninsula and Cape Murray. Its head is fed by the glaciers Nobile, Bozhinov, Krebs, We ...

, off the north coast of Eurydice Peninsula, Danco Coast on the

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. The island was mapped by the

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from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57, and named by the

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in 1960 for

Salomon August Andrée Salomon August Andrée (18 October 1854, in Gränna, Småland – October 1897, in Kvitøya, Arctic Norway), during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while ...

(1854–97), a

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engineer who attempted to fly over the

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by balloon in 1897, perishing in the attempt.Geoffrey Carpentier.
Antarctica, first journey: the traveller's resource guide
'. Hidden Brook Press; September 2009. . p. 195. A soil and vegetation study was conducted on the island in 1981 by R. I. L. Smith.Helmut Berger.
Monograph of the Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae (Ciliophora, Hypotricha)
'. Springer Science & Business Media; 21 October 2008. . p. 333–.

References

* Islands of Graham Land Danco Coast {{DancoCoast-geo-stub

See also

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