Andrée Land is an area in East Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

 bounded by Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord

Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord

Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord is a major fjord system in East Greenland, bounded by Suess Land and Ymer Island to the South, and Frænkel Land, Andrée Land and Gauss Peninsula to the North...

, Isfjord and Geologfjord. It was named by A.G. Nathorst

Alfred Gabriel Nathorst

Alfred Gabriel Nathorst was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist and palaeobotanist. Nathorst was born in Väderbrunn outside Nyköping and died in Stockholm.-Biography:He was born on November 7, 1850....

 on his 1899 expedition after Salomon August Andrée

Salomon August Andrée

Salomon August Andrée , during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon...

, who attempted to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897, but crash-landed on the pack ice and died on Kvitøya

Kvitøya

Kvitøya is an island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, with an area of . It is located at , making it the easternmost part of the Kingdom of Norway...

. 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.