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Three coastline profiles of the North Cape

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Three coastline profiles of the North Cape

Linschoten, Jan Huygen van / Doetechum, Joannes / Baptista à / van / Ketel, Gerard

Three coastline profiles of the North Cape and the nearby Stappen Islands, as they appear from various places. The expedition ships passed the North Cape on 19 and 20 June 1594

From Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Voyagie ofte Schipvaart, an account of the first and second expeditions Dutch fleets undertook along the north coast of present-day Russia in order to find a northeast passage to Asia.

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Sources and literature

L'Honoré Naber, Jan Huygen van Linschotens reizen naar het Noorden, 1594-1595 (1914)