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Willem Barents
Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer (1550–1597)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 1550, 1550
- Died
- 20 June 1597
- Place of birth
- Formerum
- Place of death
- Novaya Zemlya
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Willem
- Spouse
- wife of Willem Barents
- Field of work
- exploration, polar expedition
- Occupation
- explorer, cartographer, polar explorer, navigator, seafarer, skipper, maritime cartographer, discoverer
- Citizenship
- Dutch Republic, Seventeen Provinces, Holy Roman Empire
- Native language
- Dutch
- cause of death
- scurvy
- described by source
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden, Repertorium van Nederlandse kaartmakers
- has works in the collection
- Het Scheepvaartmuseum
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Dutch
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Willem Barentsz
- owner of
- De Windhond
- patronym or matronym
- Barentszoon
- residence
- Terschelling, Amsterdam
- topic's main category
- Category:Willem Barentsz
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