Andøyane

79° 40' - 13°

At the northside of  Liefdefjord you'll find a group of small islands called Andøyane, which means Duck-islands.. 

Not much information about these islands only about Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjöld,18321901, Swedish geologist and arctic explorer, first to navigate the Northeast Passage, b. Finland. He served as geologist on several expeditions to Spitsbergen. He visit Andøyane in 1875.

During the last twenty years of his life Nordenskjöld wrote several valuable books on geography, cartography, and travel. Among his translated works is The Voyage of the Vega (1881). His Facsimile-Atlas (1889) and Periplus (1897) are especially interesting for their collections of early maps, charts, and geographical documents.

See The Arctic Voyages of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (ed. by A. Leslie, 1879).