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# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:44:37.708Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Barentsz set out in the 1590s chasing what mapmakers dreamed of: a passage over the top of the world. His first two voyages reached Novaya Zemlya and the Kara Sea before pack ice closed the door. On the third attempt in 1596, his crew stumbled onto Spitsbergen and Bear Island, then got locked in ice off Novaya Zemlya's coast. They built a shelter from driftwood and survived nearly a year in conditions no European expedition had endured and recorded. When the thaw came in June 1597, they took to open boats. Barentsz died at sea a week into the escape, his body given to the water somewhere north of the Russian coast.