Gerrit de Veer
Gerrit de Veer (–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. Provided by Wikipedia
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14by Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626., Pretty, Francis., Veer, Gerrit de., Wingfield, Anthony, Captain., Stansby, William, fl. 1597-1638, printer., Featherstone, Henry, d. 1647, bookseller., Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress), English Printing Collection (Library of Congress), Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)Get access
Published 1625
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