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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 ...
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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.


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