
Andrée Land is the land area between
Wijdefjorden and
Woodfjorden
Woodfjord is a fjord on the north shore of Spitsbergen island in the Svalbard archipelago
An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing ...
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 N ...
,
Svalbard in
Arctic Norway.
Limited in the south by a line from Woodfjorden through
Vonbreen to
Holtedahlfonna eastwards to the upper part of
Abrahamsenbreen through
Ruskbreen,
Millarpasset,
Lisbetbreen and
Vestfjorddalen to
Vestfjorden.
The area is named after Swedish engineer and polar explorer
Salomon August Andrée.
References
Geography of Svalbard
Peninsulas of Spitsbergen
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