Gerrit de Veer
Illustration — Novaya Zemlya's west coast as depicted in De Veer's diary Gerrit de Veer (c. 1570–after 1598) was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' second and third voyages of 1595 and 1596 respectively, in search of the Northeast passage. De Veer kept a diary of the voyages and in 1597, was the first person to observe and record the Novaya Zemlya effect, and the first Westerner to observe hypervitaminosis A caused by consumption of the liver of a polar bear.
Gerrit de Veer
Gerrit de Veer · Gerrit de Veer. · Public domain
- Born
- 1570 · Amsterdam.
- Died
- 1598
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- explorer · military officer · diarist · writer · ornithologist · seafarer
- Languages
- Dutch
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He wrote The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions (1594, 1595, and 1596).
Gerrit de Veer is recorded as explorer, military officer, diarist, writer and ornithologist.
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Gerrit de Veer (born 1570) is described as a seafarer in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth of Gerrit de Veer is recorded in 1570.
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Collision between the ships of Barentsz and Van Linschoten, 1595 again the ships of Barentsz and Van Linschoten collide with each other during the second voyage, August 6, 1595. Opposite page 21 in: 'War-like Relation. Three new unprecedented strange ship types, Dutch and Zealand ship.... Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 '(1598). See Discussion page
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1570
Gerrit de Veer born at Amsterdam.
1598
Gerrit de Veer died.
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The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions, 1594, 1595, and 1596, by Gerrit de Veer, 2017
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