Andrée-Land (Svalbard)
Coordinates: 79 ° 22 ' N , 14 ° 42' E
Andrée-Land is an area in the north of the island of Spitsbergen on Svalbard .
geography
Andrée-Land essentially comprises the land between Woodfjorden and Wijdefjorden . The southern border runs south from Woodfjorden to Holtedahlfonna and from there eastwards via Abrahamsenbreen, Ruskenbreen, Millarpasset and Vestfjorddalen to Vestfjorden . In the west Andrée Land borders on Haakon VII Land and in the south on James I Land .
The long coastline is not covered by glaciers and the interior of Andrée Land is only covered by relatively small glaciers, in contrast to Haakon VII Land to the west. There is a separate population of the Svalbard reindeer in the fjords . There is a walrus colony on the island of Moffen north of the peninsula . Birds, on the other hand, tend to be underrepresented in Andrée-Land. Around 10,000 animals breed in the Jakobsenbukta in the northwest.
There are no settlements in Andrée-Land.
etymology
Andrée-Land was named after Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897), the Swedish engineer and polar explorer who tried to go to the North Pole in a gas balloon in 1897 and was killed in the process. The name was given by the Spitzbergen cartographer Gerard Jakob De Geer .
swell
- Andrée Land . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).
- Woodfjorden, Liefdefjorden, Bockfjorden - Cruise Handbook of Svalbard