Freeing a path through the ice to the sea, 1597, Anonymous, after Gerrit de Veer, 1598 print The release of a path through the ice to the sea, 12 June 1597. The heel axes and spades is made a path through the ice over which the sloop can be dragged to the sea. A polar bear is shot in the foreground. Opposite page 101 in: 'Warhafftige Relation. Der Dreyen Newen Unerhörten Seltzamen Schiffart So Die Holländischen und Seeländischen Schiff .... Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 performed '(1598). Nuremberg paper engraving New Zembla

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