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16th-century Dutch naval officer
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]
References
- ^ Lips, Paul (23 January 2003). "Hypervitaminosis A and Fractures". New England Journal of Medicine. 348 (4): 347–349. doi:10.1056/NEJMe020167. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 12540650.
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