Willem Barents
See also: Barents
Willem Barents (or Wilhem Barents) (born in 1550? , with Terschelling, Plank, Netherlands - deceased the June 20th, 1597, in Nova Zembla, Russia) was a navigator and exploring Dutch, pioneer of forwardings in water of the Far North.
Biography
It left Amsterdam in 1594 with two ships in the search of a northern passage towards the Asia extreme. It reached the west coast of the Nouvelle Zemble, and followed it towards north, for finally making half-turn whereas it was close to its northern end.
The following year, it ordered another forwarding of seven ships, which moved towards the strait between the Asian coast and the Île Vaïgatch, but it was able too late to find there a passage navigable.
Its third voyage also failed and the life cost him. It had two boats then, and saw the Île with the Bears and the Spitzberg), where the two boats separated. The vessel of Barents, after having skirted the north of Nova Zembla, was imprisoned in the ices and the crew was obliged to winter in Zemble News, dismounting part of their ship to survive. Next spring, as the weather conditions did not improve, Barents decided to leave Nova Zembla in order to find a way of hello. The majority of the team members were left there, but Barents itself, too weakened, died the June 20th 1597. A version fictionalized and drawn with talent, is brought back to us by it by Bob de Moor in its work Cursed Forwarding of Cori the Ship's boy, in 1987.
The history of the terrible winter spent to Nova Zembla was published by Gerrit de Veer, which was also the first nobody to observe the atmospheric anomaly called Effet Novaya Zemlya.
The Mer of Barents accepted its name.
See too
External bond
- Barents and "Saved House" relics