Gerrit de Veer
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Gerrit de Veer
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Gerrit de Veer 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.
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16th-century Dutch naval officer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_de_Veer
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2024-03-12T06:30:45Z
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