William Barents and his crew trapped in Arctic ice during their third expedition of 1596. Led by the Dutch navigator and explorer William Barents (), the expedition attempted to find the Northeast Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. After
William Barents and his crew trapped in Arctic ice during their third expedition of 1596. Led by the Dutch navigator and explorer William Barents (), the expedition attempted to find the Northeast Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. After their ship was trapped in ice, the crew of 16 spent the winter in a shelter (Het Behouden Huys, The Kept House) that they built on Novaya Zemlya. Barents died in June of 1597 as he attempted to escape the Arctic. This engraving is from The Three voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions (Amsterdam, circa 1600) by Gerrit de Veer, a member of the third expedition. The Barents Sea, Barentsburg and Barents Region were all named after William Barents.
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