Veer, Gerrit de
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Name (Latin)
Veer, Gerrit de
Other forms of name
De Veer, Gerat
De Veer, Gerrit
De Vera, Gerard
Veer, Gerat de
Vera, Gerard de
Vera, Gerardo di
Date of birth
1570
Date of death
1598
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Author's Waerachtige beschryvinge.
- His Tre navigation fatte dagli Olandesi, 1599:t.p. (Gerardo di Vera)
- Purchas, Samuel. Haklvytvs posthumus, or, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, 1625:v. III, p. 473 (Gerat de Veer)
Wikipedia description:
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. He wrote The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions (1594, 1595, and 1596).
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