Gerrit de Veer
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Gerrit de Veer was a Dutch carpenter on Willem Barentsz' third voyage (1596) in search of the Northeast passage. De Veer kept a diary of the voyage 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 consuming polar bear liver.[1]
