Willem Barentsz (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləm ˈbaːrənts]; c. 1550 – 20 June 1597), anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a Dutch navigator, cartographer...
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of the Ural Mountains, separate the Barents Sea from the Kara Sea. Although part of the Arctic Ocean, the Barents Sea has been characterised as "turning...
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Barents may refer to: René Barents (born 1951), Dutch judge and legal scholar Willem Barents (c. 1550–1597), Dutch navigator and explorer Barents AirLink...
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Europe, [citation needed] including islands. The cape was discovered by Willem Barents in 1596, during his pursuit of the northern sea route to Asia. It is...
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Babushkin Konstantin Badygin Karl Baer Georgiy Baidukov Ann Bancroft Willem Barents Michael Barne Robert Bartlett Nikifor Begichev Fabian von Bellingshausen...
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1501), legendary Dutch heroine Willem Barentsz (c. 1550 – 1597), Dutch navigator, cartographer and Arctic explorer; the Barents Sea was named after him. Frank...
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Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia. The Willem Barents Biological Station is a Polar station located northeast of Meduza Bay...
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1534) June 18 – Markus Fugger, German businessman (b. 1529) June 20 – Willem Barents, Dutch navigator and explorer (b. c. 1550) July 8 – Luís Fróis, Portuguese...
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Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2015. Willem Barents Biological Station State Nature Reserve “Wrangel Island "Ministry of...
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– Willem Barents leaves Vlie, on his third and final Arctic voyage. June 5 – Pope Clement VIII appoints 16 new Cardinals. June 10 – Willem Barents and...
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– Willem Barents leaves Vlie, on his third and final Arctic voyage. June 5 – Pope Clement VIII appoints 16 new Cardinals. June 10 – Willem Barents and...
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Spanish commander surrenders after two months on July 22. June 5 – Willem Barents makes his first voyage to the Arctic Ocean, in search of the Northeast...
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fahrten des “Willem-Barents” in das nördliche Eismeer. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde afleverung, Amsterdam. Onderzoekingstochter van de “Willem-Barents” Exped...
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Novaya Zemlya (category Islands of the Barents Sea)
Glacier group. East coast, Severny Wide shot of Novaya Zemlya Barents Bay (Willem Barents' gravesite; 76°27′N 68°42′E / 76.450°N 68.700°E / 76.450;...
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North, Canada (Hudson Bay) 1574–1631 Henry Hudson North 1594–1597 Willem Barents Siberia and Pacific coast 1649–1641 Ivan Yuryevich Moskvitin Oceania...
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remarkable similarities to Svalbard, which was not discovered until 1597 (by Willem Barents). Ruysch calls it 'European Hyberborea' and a peninsula stretching out...
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west Greenland 1878–1881: different voyages with Dutch polar schooner Willem Barents in the area around Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya, organised by the Royal...
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Dutch) Eerste Nederlandse 3D film op NFF Official website (in Dutch) Nova Zembla at IMDb Russian ship ‘Shtandart’ as the ship of Willem Barents v t e...
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to Barents by Dutch merchants to discover the fabled Northeast Passage to the East Indies. Jacob van Heemskerck captained the first ship, and Barents served...
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bridge or fence. In 1880 Apol took part in an expedition on the SS Willem Barents to Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean. The impressions of this journey...
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also have been Jan Mayen, or a part of eastern Greenland. The Dutchman Willem Barents made the first indisputable discovery of Svalbard in 1596. Multiple...
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Barentsøya (redirect from Barents Island)
named after Dutch explorer Willem Barents who, despite discovering Svalbard, never sighted Barentsøya itself. The name "Barents Land" was only given after...
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northwest of Norway between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea, adjoining the Barents Sea to the northeast. In the southwest, it is separated from the Atlantic...
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Franz Josef Land (category Islands of the Barents Sea)
was the Dutch Expedition for the Exploration of the Barents Sea, on board the schooner Willem Barents. Constrained by the ice, they never reached land....
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(2009) Tobias Michael Carel Asser, jurist and Nobel prize winner (1991) Willem Barents, explorer (1996) Beatrix of the Netherlands, queen of the Netherlands...
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located north of the bay of Tjuvfjorden. An expedition with the ship Willem Barents stayed in the harbor of Ekrollhamna during the winter of 1894–95. "Ekrollhamna...
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island covered in ice is 11.5%. Amsterdam Island was first seen by Willem Barents in 1596. The Dutch first occupied it in 1614 (the year in which it was...
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due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice. 1596 – Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island. 1619 – Thirty Years' War:...
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as an Honorary Governor. Books and Pamphlets De eerste tocht van de Willem Barents naar de Noordelijke IJszee 1878: De dagboeken van Antonius de Bruijne...
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similarities to Svalbard, which would not be discovered until 1597 (by Willem Barents). Ruysch calls it 'European Hyberborea' and a peninsula stretching out...
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