Andrée-Land (Greenland)
| Andrée-Land | ||
.jpg) Devil's Castle in Andrée-Land |
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 40 ′ N , 26 ° 17 ′ W | |
| Waters 1 | Geologfjord | |
| Waters 2 | Isfjord | |
| length | 106 km | |
| width | 62 km | |
| surface | 4th 900 km² | |
 Map sheet of East Greenland with ANDRÉES LAND in the south |
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Andrée Land is an uninhabited region in Northeast Greenland National Park .
geography
Andrée Land is a peninsula surrounded by the Geologfjord in the north, the Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Fjord in the east and the Isfjord in the south. On the land side, it is bounded by the Gerard de Geer Glacier in the southwest and by the Adolf Hoel Glacier in the north. Andrée-Land is alpine in character with mountains over 2000 m high. The highest peak is the Margaretatop with a height of 2360 m. The interior of Andrée-Land is partly glaciated, the coast and the large valleys of Rendalen and Grejsdalen are ice-free in summer.
The Ymer Island is offshore at a distance of five to six kilometers .
etymology
The Swedish polar explorer Alfred Gabriel Nathorst named the region after his compatriot, the engineer Salomon August Andrée , who tried in 1897 with two companions to go from Spitzbergen to the North Pole in a gas balloon and was killed in the process. When Nathorst visited Greenland in 1899, one of his goals was to find traces of the missing balloon expedition. He named the neighboring regions after Andrée's companions Nils Strindberg and Knut Frænkel .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010), ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English). P. 122 ( PDF ; 12.3 MB).
- ↑ Map (PDF; 3.4 MB) of Northeast Greenland on a scale of 1: 1,000,000, De Nationale Geologiske Undersøgelser for Danmark og Grønland (GEUS).