Barents, Willem (c. 1550–1597)
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An illustration from Gerrit de Veer's Narrative of Barents' Last Voyage (1598). The ship is caught in the Arctic ice, and is being piloted by a tender. Barents, a Dutch explorer, was seeking the Northeast Passage, having already made two other such voyages. He died on this final attempt.
Dutch explorer and navigator. He made three expeditions to seek the Northeast Passage; he died on the last voyage. The Barents Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean north of Norway, is named after him.
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