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Gerrit de Veer

Gerrit de Veer (–after 1598) was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' second and third voyages of 1595 and 1596 respectively, in search of the Northeast passage.

De Veer kept a diary of the voyages and in 1597, was the first person to observe and record the Novaya Zemlya effect, and the first Westerner to observe hypervitaminosis A caused by consumption of the liver of a polar bear.

He wrote ''The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions (1594, 1595, and 1596).'' Provided by Wikipedia