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Coastline profiles and map of islands west of the Yugor Strait

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Coastline profiles and map of islands west of the Yugor Strait

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

Soon after the four expedition ships had rejoined at the western entrance of the Yugor Strait, they sptted various small islands at the western end of the strait. They called them Walcheren, Oranje and Mauritius. The northermmost of them, Mauritius (the island of Matveyev) was explored and charted. On the upper side we see the coastline profiles of the various islands, below the map of Matveyev. On the left side, a depiction of the cross that was found on the island, including its inscription.

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)