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Sojourn and repairs at IJshoek, 17-21 June 1597

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Sojourn and repairs at IJshoek, 17-21 June 1597

Veer, Gerrit de

The expedition members pull the boats, mauled by the drifting ice, onto the ice sheet and perform repairs. To the right, Barentsz and Andriesz, who died during this sojourn. In the background, the boats are repaired and birds are caught.

From the Wahrhafftige Relation, the German version of Gerrit de Veer’s journal, published in 1598. (See under ‘documentation’ for details.)

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Sources and literature

Veer, Gerrit de, Om de Noord: de tochten van Willem Barentsz en Jacob van Heemskerck en de overwintering op Nova Zembla, zoals opgetekend door Gerrit de Veer (1598)

Veer, Gerrit de, Warhafftige Relation. Der dreyen newen unerhörten seltzamen Schiffart so die Holländischen und Seeländischen Schiff....Anno 1594, 1595 und 1596 verricht (NG-1979-564) (1598)