Northeast Passage
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.
Sea route from the North Atlantic, around Asia, to the North Pacific, pioneered by the Swedish explorer Nils Nordenskjöld 1878–79 and developed by the USSR in settling Northern Siberia from 1935.
| The passage is heavily used by Russian merchant shipping. |
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