Andrée Land is the land area between

Wijdefjorden Wijdefjord is the longest fjord in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. Wijdefjord is located in the northern portion of the island of Spitsbergen, which lies in the Arctic Ocean about midway between Norway and the North Pole, and is the largest island ...

and Woodfjorden on

Spitsbergen Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norw ...

Svalbard Svalbard ( , ), also known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. North of mainland Europe, it is about midway between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range ...

Arctic Norway Arctic Norway ( no, Det arktiske Norge) comprises the northernmost parts of Norway that lie above the Arctic circle. Norway reaches from approximately 58°N to 81°N, so large parts lie north of the Arctic circle at 66°33′. In Norway, the nam ...

. Limited in the south by a line from Woodfjorden through

Vonbreen Vonbreen (Hope Glacier) is a glacier in Haakon VII Land and Andrée Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has an extension of about 25 kilometers, and is located south of Woodfjorden. The name is a translation of the German language ''Hoffnungs-G ...

Holtedahlfonna Holtedahlfonna is a glacier at Haakon VII Land on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, between Wijdefjorden Wijdefjord is the longest fjord in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. Wijdefjord is located in the northern portion of the island of Spitsbergen, which ...

eastwards to the upper part of

Abrahamsenbreen Abrahamsenbreen is a glacier in Andrée Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It has a length of fourteen kilometers, and is located in the inner part of Woodfjorddalen, branching off from Holtedahlfonna Holtedahlfonna is a glacier at Haakon VII Land on ...

through Ruskbreen, Millarpasset,

Lisbetbreen Lisbetbreen (Lisbet Glacier) is a tributary glacier on the northwestern side of Universitetsbreen, on the divide between Andrée Land and James I Land in Spitsbergen, Svalbard in Arctic Norway. It is approx. 15 km long 'Z'-shaped flowing in an ...

and

Vestfjorddalen ''See also Vestfjorddalen (Svalbard).'' Vestfjorddalen is a valley in Tinn, Norway, stretching from Lake Tinn westwards past Rjukan, Vemork and Rjukan Falls to Møsvatn. The Måna The Måna or Måne is a river in Tinn in Vestfold og Telemark, N ...

Vestfjorden Vestfjorden is a long fjord or oceanic sea in Nordland county, Norway. The name literally means "the west fjord", although it is called a fjord, it could best be described as a firth or an open bight of sea. The "fjord" lies between the Lofo ...

. The area is named after Swedish engineer and polar explorer

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 ...

References

Geography of Svalbard Peninsulas of Spitsbergen {{Spitsbergen-geo-stub