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Willem Barentsz dies at Nova Zembla
June 20, 1597: Dutch cartographer and explorer Willem Barentsz died at sea somewhere in the Arctic. He went on three expeditions to the far north in search for a Northeast passage, and during his third expedition, the crew was stranded on Nova Zembla for almost a year. They were theContinue Reading