Andrée Land is a
peninsula
A peninsula (; ) is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most, but not all of its borders. A peninsula is also sometimes defined as a piece of land bordered by water on three of its sides. Peninsulas exist on al ...
in
King Christian X Land
King Christian X Land ( da, Kong Christian X Land) is an area of northeastern Greenland.
History
This area was named after King Christian X of Denmark and Iceland (1870 – 1947), who rose to the throne in 1912. At the time of the Three-year ...
, East
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is ...
that is bounded by
Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord, ''Isfjord'' and ''Geologfjord''.
History
The peninsula was named by
A.G. Nathorst
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (7 November 1850 – 20 January 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist, and palaeobotanist.
Life
He was born in Väderbrunn in Sweden.
Nathorst's interest in geology was awoken by Charles Lyell’s ‘’ ...
on his 1899 expedition after
Swedish Arctic explorer
Arctic exploration is the physical exploration of the Arctic region of the Earth. It refers to the historical period during which mankind has explored the region north of the Arctic Circle. Historical records suggest that humankind have explore ...
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 ...
, who had made an attempt to reach the
North Pole
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by
balloon
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in 1897. One of the aims of Nathorst's 1899 venture was to search for traces of the lost
Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition, whose fate was unknown until 1930, when it became known that Andrée had crash-landed on the pack ice and died on
Kvitøya
Kvitøya (English: "White Island") is an island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, with an area of . It is the easternmost part of the Kingdom of Norway. The closest Russian Arctic possession, Victoria Island, lies only to the ea ...
.
The region was later visited and accurately mapped during
Lauge Koch
Lauge Koch (5 July 1892 – 5 June 1964) was a Danish geologist and Arctic explorer.
Biography
Lauge Koch was born in 1892 to Karl and Elisabeth Koch. His development as a scientist was greatly influenced by his father's second cousin Johan Pet ...
's expeditions to East Greenland.
Geography
Andrée Land is located about 100 km inland from the
Foster Bay
Foster Bay ( da, Foster Bugt) is a large bay of the Greenland Sea in King Christian X Land, Eastern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the NE Greenland National Park area. Geography
The bay lies north-east of Geographical Society Island. Th ...
of the
Greenland Sea
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. It is bound by
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord ( da, Kejser Franz Josef Fjord; kl, Kangerluk Kejser Franz Joseph) is a major fjord system in the NE Greenland National Park area, East Greenland.
Geography
The Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord has its mouth in the Foster Bay ...
in the southeast, and two branches of it, the
Isfjord —beyond which lies
Fraenkel Land— in the SW and the
Geologfjord, beyond which lies
Strindberg Land, in the east.
Small and rocky
Bjorne Island ''(Bjørneø)'' is located off the easternmost end of Andrée Land,
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 120] north of
Cape Weber.
The peninsula is attached to the mainland on its northwestern side, with the
Gerard De Geer Glacier in its western boundary, beyond which lies
Louise Boyd Land in the west and
J. L. Mowinckel Land
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in the northwest. The
Adolf Hoel Glacier flows in the north and the
Nunatak Glacier in the northeast.
A number of valleys cut across the peninsula; the most important are the Grejsdal in the middle, the Eremitdal further north and the Rendal in the west.
Mountains
Andrée Land is mountainous. The highest point is high
Margaretatop
Margaretatop is a mountain in eastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Google Earth
History
At the time of Lauge Koch's 1949–51 expeditions this summit was named after Margareta Hediger by Amer ...
, also known as Margarita Spids, located in the southern part. The
Lacroix Mountains ''(Lacroix Bjerge)'' are a mountain range at the SW end rising above the Isfjord.
is a
nunatak group to the NW of Andrée Land.
Some of the other noteworthy peaks are:
*
Aappalaatsiaq (1,998 m)
*
Agardh Bjerg (1,820 m)
*
Ajorpoq (1,498 m)
[ Google Earth]
*
Alpebjerg (2,052 m)
*
Devil's Castle ''(Teufelsschloss)'' (1,303 m). Located at the SE end of Andrée Land on the fjord shore, opposite
Cape Petersens, the NW extremity of
Ymer Island
Ymer Island ( da, Ymer Ø) is an island in northeastern Greenland. The island is a part of Northeast Greenland National Park.
Ymer Island is named after the Swedish geographical journal ''Ymer'', which published many accounts of Swedish expedi ...
.
*
Djævleborg (1,800 m)
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Knivbjerg (1,987 m)
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Marcia Bjerg (1,460 m)
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Målebjerg (1,842 m)
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Mørkebjerg (1,497 m)
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Tårnfjeld (2,163 m)
See also
*
Cartographic expeditions to Greenland
This is a list of recognised pioneering expeditions to Greenland that contributed to the cartography of the territory.
See also
* Geography of Greenland
* Arctic exploration
Arctic exploration is the physical exploration of the Arctic reg ...
*
Frænkel Land
*
List of mountains in Greenland
This is a list of mountains in Greenland.
List
For each mountain, the municipality in which it is located is given, along with coordinates indicating the approximate centre of the mountain (follow the link to see satellite images of the location ...
References
External links
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Den grønlandske Lods - Sejladsanvisninger ØstgrønlandGlacitectonic deformations in East Greenland
Peninsulas of Greenland
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