
Andrée Land is the land area between
Wijdefjorden and
Woodfjorden on
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipel ...
,
Svalbard
Svalbard ( , ), previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norway, Norwegian archipelago that lies at the convergence of the Arctic Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. North of continental Europe, mainland Europe, it lies about midway be ...
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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