Andrée Land is a
peninsula
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Etymology
The word ''peninsula'' derives , . T ...
in
King Christian X Land, East
Greenland
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that is bounded by
Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord, ''Isfjord'' and ''Geologfjord''.
History
The peninsula was named by
A.G. Nathorst on his 1899 expedition after
Swedish Arctic explorer Salomon August Andrée, 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.
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 Peter ...
's expeditions to East Greenland.
Geography
Andrée Land is located about 100 km inland from the
Foster Bay of the
Greenland Sea. It is bound by
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord 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 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, 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
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group to the NW of Andrée Land.
Some of the other noteworthy peaks are:
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Aappalaatsiaq (1,998 m)
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Agardh Bjerg (1,820 m)
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Ajorpoq (1,498 m)
Google Earth
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Alpebjerg (2,052 m)
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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.
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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
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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
Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northea ...
*
Frænkel Land
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List of mountains in Greenland
References
External links
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Den grønlandske Lods - Sejladsanvisninger ØstgrønlandGlacitectonic deformations in East Greenland
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Peninsulas of Greenland