Andrée Land (Greenland)
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Mountain summits and clouds in Andrée Land | |
  Location of Andrée Land Peninsula | |
| Geography | |
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| Location | East Greenland |
| Coordinates | 73°35′N 26°00′W / 73.583°N 26.000°WCoordinates: 73°35′N 26°00′W / 73.583°N 26.000°W |
| Adjacent bodies of water |
Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord Ijsfjord and Geologfjord |
| Length | 85 km (52.8 mi) |
| Width | 63 km (39.1 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 2,360 m (7,740 ft) |
| Administration | |
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Greenland (Denmark) | |
| Zone | NE Greenland National Park |
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Andrée Land is a peninsula in East Greenland bounded by Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord, Isfjord and Geologfjord.
History
The peninsula was named by A.G. Nathorst on his 1899 expedition after Salomon August Andrée, who attempted to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897, but crash-landed on the pack ice and died on Kvitøya. One of the aims of Nathorst’s 1899 expedition was to search for traces of the lost Andrée expedition, whose fate was unknown until 1930.
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 in the SW and the Geologfjord in the NE. The peninsula is attached to the mainland on its northwestern side, with the Gerard De Geer Glacier in its western boundary, and the Adolf Hoels Glacier and Nunatak Glacier in the north.[1]
The Devil's Castle (Teufelsschloss) is a prominent mountain of reddish rock with a lighter stripe extending diagonally across its face that stands at the SE end of Andrée Land on the fjord shore, opposite Cape Petersens, the NW extremity of Ymer Island.[2]
 Map of Northeastern Greenland. |
_(14762190401).jpg) 1882 artist's impression of the Teufelsschloss. |
See also
References
- ↑ "Andrée Land". Mapcarta. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 120