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Willem Barentsz (; – 20 June 1597), anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a
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, and
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. Barentsz went on three expeditions to the far north in search for a
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. He reached as far as
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and the
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in his first two voyages, but was turned back on both occasions by ice. During a third expedition, the crew discovered
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and Bear Island, but subsequently became stranded on Novaya Zemlya for almost a year. Barentsz died on the return voyage in 1597. The
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, among many other places, is named after him.


Life and career

Willem Barentsz was born around 1550 in the village
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. ''Barentsz'' was not his
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but rather his
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, short for ''Barentszoon'' " Barent's son". A cartographer by trade, Barentsz sailed to Spain and the Mediterranean to complete an
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of the
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, which he co-published with
Petrus Plancius Petrus Plancius (; 1552 – 15 May 1622) was a Dutch-Flemish astronomer, cartographer and clergyman. He was born as Pieter Platevoet in Dranouter, now in Heuvelland, West Flanders. He studied theology in Germany and England. At the age of 24 he ...
. His career as an explorer was spent searching for a
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in order to trade with China. He reasoned clear, open water north of
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must exist since the sun shone 24 hours a day melting Arctic sea ice, indeed he thought the further north one went the less ice there would be.


First voyage

On 5 June 1594, Barentsz left the island of
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aboard the small ship ''Mercury'', as part of a group of three ships sent out in separate directions to try to enter the
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, with the hopes of finding the Northeast passage above Siberia. Between 23 and 29 June, Barentsz stayed at
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. On 9 July, the crew encountered a polar bear for the first time. After shooting and wounding it with a
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when it tried to climb aboard the ship, the seamen decided to capture it with the hope of bringing it back to Holland. Once leashed and brought aboard the ship however, the bear rampaged and had to be killed. This occurred in Bear Creek, Williams Island. Upon discovering the Orange Islands, the crew came across a herd of approximately 200
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es and tried to kill them with hatchets and pikes. Finding the task more difficult than they imagined, cold steel shattering against the tough hides of the animals, they left with only a few ivory tusks. Barentsz reached the west coast of
Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya (, also , ; rus, Но́вая Земля́, p=ˈnovəjə zʲɪmˈlʲa, ) is an archipelago in northern Russia. It is situated in the Arctic Ocean, in the extreme northeast of Europe, with Cape Flissingsky, on the northern island, ...
, and followed it northward before being forced to turn back in the face of large icebergs. Although they did not reach their ultimate goal, the trip was considered a success.
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was a member of this expedition and the second.


Second voyage

The following year, Prince Maurice of Orange was filled with "the most exaggerated hopes" on hearing of Barentsz' previous voyage, and named him chief pilot and conductor of a new expedition, which was accompanied by six ships loaded with merchant wares that the Dutch hoped to trade with China. Setting out on 2 June 1595, the voyage went between the Siberian coast and
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. On 30 August, the party came across approximately 20 Samoyed "wild men" with whom they were able to speak, due to a crewmember speaking their language. 4 September saw a small crew sent to
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to search for a type of
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that had been noticed earlier. The party was attacked by a polar bear, and two sailors were killed. Eventually, the expedition turned back upon discovering that unexpected weather had left the
Kara Sea The Kara Sea (russian: Ка́рское мо́ре, ''Karskoye more'') is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. ...
frozen. This expedition was largely considered to be a failure.


Third voyage

In 1596, disappointed by the failure of previous expeditions, the States-General announced they would no longer subsidize similar voyages – but instead offered a high reward for anybody who ''successfully'' navigated the Northeast Passage. The Town Council of
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purchased and outfitted two small ships, captained by
Jan Rijp Jan Cornelisz Rijp (–) was a Dutch mariner best known for his involvement with Willem Barentsz in finding a route to the East, avoiding the Spanish and the Portuguese fleets in the South. In May 1596, Rijp was named captain of the second of two ...
and
Jacob van Heemskerk Jacob van Heemskerck (3 March 1567 – 25 April 1607) was a Dutch explorer and naval admiral. Early life Jacob van Heemskerck was born in Amsterdam in 1567. He is described as having delicate feature, large brown eyes, a thin high nose, ...
, to search for the elusive channel under the command of Barentsz. They set off on 10 May or 15 May, and on 9 June discovered Bear Island.De Veer, Gerrit. "''The Three Voyages of William Barentsz to the Arctic Regions''" (English trans. 1609). They discovered
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on 17 June, sighting its northwest coast. On 20 June they saw the entrance of a large bay, later called
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. On 21 June they anchored between Cloven Cliff and Vogelsang, where they "set up a post with the arms of the Dutch upon it." On 25 June they entered
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, which they named ''Tusk Bay'', in light of the walrus tusks they found there. The following day, 26 June, they sailed into the northern entrance of
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, but were forced to turn back because of a shoal, which led them to call the fjord ''Keerwyck'' ("inlet where one is forced to turn back"). On 28 June they rounded the northern point of
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, which they named ''Vogelhoek'', on account of the large number of birds they saw there. They sailed south, passing Isfjorden and
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, which were labelled on Barentsz's chart as ''Grooten Inwyck'' and ''Inwyck''. The ships once again found themselves at Bear Island on 1 July, which led to a disagreement between Barentsz and Van Heemskerk on one side and Rijp on the other. They agreed to part ways, with Barentsz continuing northeast, while Rijp headed due north in an attempt to cross directly over the north pole to reach China. Barentsz reached Novaya Zemlya on 17 July. Anxious to avoid becoming entrapped in the surrounding ice, he intended to head for the Vaigatch Strait, but their ship became stuck within the many icebergs and floes. Stranded, the 16-man crew was forced to spend the winter on a barren bluff. After a failed attempt to melt the
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, the crew used driftwood and lumber from the ship to build a 7.8×5.5-metre lodge they called ''Het Behouden Huys'' (The Saved House). Dealing with extreme cold, the crew realised that their socks would burn before their feet could even feel the warmth of a fire – and took to sleeping with warmed stones and cannonballs. They used the merchant fabrics aboard the ship to make additional blankets and clothing. The ship bore salted beef, butter, cheese, bread,
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, peas, beans,
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, flour, oil, vinegar, mustard, salt, beer, wine, brandy,
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, smoked bacon, ham and fish. Much of the beer froze, bursting the
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s. By 8 November
Gerrit de Veer Gerrit de Veer (–) 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 reco ...
, the ship's carpenter who kept a diary, reported a shortage of beer and bread, with wine being rationed four days later. In January 1597, the crew became the first to witness and record the atmospheric anomaly now coined the Novaya Zemlya effect, due to this sighting. Proving somewhat successful at hunting, the group caught
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es in primitive traps. The raw flesh of the Arctic fox contains small amounts of vitamin C, which, unknown to the sailors, reduced the effects of scurvy. The crew were continually attacked by polar bears that infested the area where they camped. The bears turned the stranded and now empty ship into a wintertime abode. Primitive guns usually did not kill the bears on first or even second shot (unless well aimed at the heart) and were difficult to aim, while the cold and brittle metal weapons often shattered or bent. By June, the ice had still not loosened its grip on the ship, and the remaining desperate
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-ridden survivors took two open boats. Barentsz died at sea soon after on 20 June 1597. It is not known whether Barentsz was buried on the northern island of Novaya Zemlya, or at sea. It took seven more weeks for the boats to reach the
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, where they were rescued by a Dutch merchant vessel commanded by former fellow explorer Jan Rijp who by that time had returned to the Netherlands and was on a second voyage, assuming the Barentsz crew to be lost, and found it by accident. By that time, only 12 crewmen remained. They did not reach Amsterdam until 1 November.Goorich, Frank Boott. "Man Upon the Sea", 1858. Sources differ on whether two men died on the ice floe and three in the boats, or three on the ice floe and two in the boats.De Peyster, John Watts
The Dutch at the North pole and the Dutch in Maine
3 March 1857.
The young cabin boy had died during the winter months in the shelter.


Excavation and findings

The wooden lodge where Barentsz' crew sheltered was found undisturbed by Norwegian
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er
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in 1871. Making a sketch of the lodge's construction, Carlsen recorded finding two copper cooking pots, a barrel, a tool chest, clock, crowbar, flute, clothing, two empty chests, a cooking tripod and a number of pictures. Captain Gunderson landed at the site on 17 August 1875 and collected a grappling iron, two maps and a handwritten translation of Pet and Jackman's voyages. The following year, Charles L.W. Gardiner also visited the site on 29 July where he collected 112 more objects, including the message by Barentsz and Heemskerck describing their settlement to future visitors. All of these objects eventually ended up in the
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, after some had initially been held in
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. The amateur archaeologist Miloradovich's 1933 finds are held in the
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in St. Petersburg. Dmitriy Kravchenko visited the site in 1977, 1979 and 1980 – and sent
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into the sea hoping to find the wreck of the large ship. He returned with a number of objects, which went to the Arkhangelsk Regional Museum of Local Lore (Russia). Another small collection exists at the Polar Museum in
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(Norway). In 1992, an expedition of three scientists, a journalist and two photographers commissioned by the ''Arctic Centre'' at the
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, coupled with two scientists, a cook and a doctor sent by the ''
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'' in
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, returned to the site, and erected a commemorative marker at the site of the cabin. The location of Barentsz' wintering on the ice floes has become a tourist destination for
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cruiseships operating from
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.


Legacy

Two of Barentsz' crewmembers later published their journals,
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who had accompanied him on the first two voyages, and Gerrit de Veer who had acted as the ship's carpenter on the last two voyages. In 1853, the former ''Murmean Sea'' was renamed
Barents Sea The Barents Sea ( , also ; no, Barentshavet, ; russian: Баренцево море, Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territo ...
in his honour.
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, the second largest settlement on
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,
Barentsøya Barentsøya, sometimes anglicized as Barents Island, is an island in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway, lying between Edgeøya and Spitsbergen. Barents Island has no permanent human inhabitants. Named for the Dutch explorer Willem Barents (who ...
(Barents Island) and the
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were also named after Barentsz. In the late 19th century, the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz was opened on Terschelling. In 1878, the Netherlands christened the ''Willem Barentsz'' Arctic exploration ship. In 1931, Nijgh & Van Ditmar published a play written by
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about Barentsz' third voyage, although it was never performed. In 1946, the
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''Pan Gothia'' was re-christened the ''Willem Barentsz''. In 1953, the second ''Willem Barentsz'' whaling ship was produced. A
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in the molecular structure of the fruit fly was named ''Barentsz'', in honour of the explorer. Dutch filmmaker
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released a film called '' Nova Zembla'' in November 2011. It is the first Dutch 3D feature film. In 2011, a team of volunteers started building a replica of Barentsz' ship in the Dutch town of Harlingen. The plan was to have the ship ready by 2018, when the
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was scheduled to visit Harlingen.Website of the ''Stichting Expeditieschip Willem Barentsz''
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