Willem Barentsz
Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer (1550–1597)
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Dutch navigator who mapped the Arctic in the late 1500s and gave his name to the Barents Sea. His expeditions chasing a northeast passage to Asia became the stuff of polar exploration legend.
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Willem Barentsz, anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer.
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