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Description

Portion of 1599 map of Arctic exploration by Willem Barentsz. Spitsbergen, here mapped for the first time, is indicated as "Het Nieuwe Land" (Dutch for "the New Land"), center-left.
Source

University Library of Tromsø
Date

Original map 1599. Portion published online by Tromsø University 1999 as part of the "Northern Lights Route" project of the Council of Europe. Uploaded to Commons 2006.
Author

Willem Barentsz.
Permission
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