Andrée Island
| Andrée Island | ||
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| Waters | Recess Cove | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 31 ′ S , 61 ° 30 ′ W | |
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The Andrée Island is an island off the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in Recess Cove , a side bay of Charlotte Bay .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped the island based on aerial photographs taken by the British Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. made between 1956 and 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Swedish polar explorer Salomon August Andrée (1857-1897), who perished while trying to reach the geographic North Pole by balloon .
Web links
- Andrée Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Andrée Island on geographic.org (English)