Novaya Zemlya's west coast as depicted in De Veer's diary
Gerrit de Veer (c. 1570–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.[1]
He wrote The Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions (1594, 1595, and 1596).[2]
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