Andrée Land
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Andrée Land is an area in East Greenland bounded by Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord, Isfjord and Geologfjord. It 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 Andrée’s expedition, whose fate was unknown until 1930.
Nathorst’s expedition was searching for traces of the lost Andrée expedition.
