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    Maarten Gerritszoon Vries or Fries, also referred to as de Vries, (18 February 1589 in Harlingen, Netherlands – late 1647 at sea near Manila) was a 17th-century...
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  • still lifes and genre scenes Floris Gerritsz. van Schooten (1585–1656), Dutch painter of still life Maarten Gerritsz Vries (1589–1647), 17th-century Dutch...
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    used as Japanese convict settlements. 1643 - Explorer Maarten Gerritsz Vries called it the De Vries Archipelago November 14, 1871 (December 25, 1871) ---...
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     267. Maarten Gerritszoon Vries; Cornelis Janszoon Coen; Pieter Arend Leupe; Philipp Franz von Siebold (1858). Reize van Maarten Gerritsz: Vries in 1643...
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  • Hence, "de Vries" means "the Frisian". The name has been modified to "DeVries", "deVries", or "Devries" in other countries. People named De Vries: Barend...
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    Dutch cartographer Maarten Gerritsz Vries was exploring Hokkaido and the surrounding area for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Vries's account of the area...
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    probably, the island of Sakhalin) in the 1640s. The Dutch captain Maarten Gerritsz Vries in the Breskens entered the Sea of Okhotsk from the south-east in...
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    Coast Willem de Vlamingh Dutch 17th Southwest Australian coast Maarten Gerritsz Vries Dutch 17th Northwest Pacific (Hokkaido, Sakhalin) Lionel Wafer Welsh...
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  • cricketer Maarten Gerritsz Vries (1589–late 1647), Dutch cartographer and explorer Sherwin Vries (born 1980), South African sprinter Virgil Vries (born 1989)...
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    currently cycling reporter Maarten Fontein, Dutch executive Maarten Froger, former Dutch field hockey striker Maarten Gerritsz Vries, 17th century Dutch explorer...
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    strait between Urup and Iturup is known as the Vries Strait, after Dutch explorer Maarten Gerritsz Vries, the first recorded European to explore the area...
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    Shiretoko Peninsula and Cape Nosappu. A Dutch expedition under Maarten Gerritsz Vries explored the islands in 1643. Russian popular legend has Fedot Alekseyevich...
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    visiting this part of the Kurils in 1643 when the Castricum under Maarten Gerritsz Vries was exploring Hokkaido and the surrounding area for the Dutch East...
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    de la Compagnie) common on European maps after the 1643 visit of Maarten Gerritsz Vries of the Dutch East India Company were either nonexistent or much...
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    reports placed in the North Pacific to the east of Japan, and sent Maarten Gerritsz Vries to explore the coasts of Korea and "Tartaria"; these, too, returned...
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    unsuccessful and abandoned the search. A second expedition led by Maarten Gerritsz Vries and Hendrick Cornelisz Schaep departed in 1643. Schaep and nine...
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  • 1589 – Henry Vane the Elder, English politician (d. 1655) 1589 – Maarten Gerritsz Vries, Dutch explorer (d. 1646) 1602 – Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish...
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  • JSTOR 2561081. Leupe, Pieter Arend; et al., eds. (1858), Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in 1643 naar het Noorden en Oosten van Japan, Volgens het Journaal...
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    reaches the western shores of Lake Baikal, opposite Olkhon. 1643 – Maarten Gerritsz Vries sails along the eastern coast of "Yezo" (Hokkaidō), between Iturup...
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    Prefecture. The Breskens and her sister ship the Castricum (under Maarten Gerritsz Vries) had been sent by order of the Governor General in the Dutch East...
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  • for two islands called 'Rica de Oro' and 'Rica de Plata'. In 1643 Maarten Gerritsz Vries reached and charted Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. In 1653 Hendrick...
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    attack in the Philippines. The Dutch equipped 18 vessels under Maarten Gerritsz Vries, and divided them into three squadrons: First Squadron Strength:...
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    "intensification of trade" with the Japanese. The early Dutch explorer Maarten Gerritsz Vries described the chashi he encountered in eastern Hokkaidō in 1643:...
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    February 18 Henry Vane the Elder, English politician (d. 1655) Maarten Gerritsz Vries, Dutch explorer (d. 1646) March 1 – Thomas Middleton, English politician...
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    February 18 Henry Vane the Elder, English politician (d. 1655) Maarten Gerritsz Vries, Dutch explorer (d. 1646) March 1 – Thomas Middleton, English politician...
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  • 1643. They were the crew of the Dutch ship Castricum, captained by Maarten Gerritsz Vries.They named the gulf in memory of their having to wait for the fog...
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  • David Vlugh David Pietersz de Vries Hidde Sjoerds de Vries Tjerk Hiddes de Vries Maarten Gerritsz Vries Johannes van Walbeeck Jacob van Wassenaer Duivenvoorde...
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    Valenzuela Francisco de Esteyvar Dutch Republic Cornelis van der Lijn Maarten Gerritsz Vries Antonio Camb Spanish victory Battle of Puerto de Cavite (1647) Spanish...
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    the French explorers became convinced that the coast visited by Maarten Gerritsz Vries in the Castricum in 1643 (i.e., in fact, the east coasts of Hokkaido...
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    on more than 25 languages. In 1692 Witsen received the diary of Maarten Gerritsz Vries, who had explored the coast of Sahkalin in 1643, and it was never...
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