Biography
Villem Barents is a Dutch navigator and a researcher who has taken an expedition to the Arctic and the projector 3 travels along the Arctic Ocean. Now the photo of the discoverer is published in geography and history textbooks.Childhood and youth
About the biography of Villem Barents outside geographic activity is practically nothing known. It is assumed that he was born about 1550, and the Boy's homeland became the Frisian Island Tershelling. Some researchers believe that his father was a simple peasant.
Already in a mature age, Villem moved to Amsterdam, where she settled on training in the navigation and cartographic workshop. His first journey occurred in the company of the mentor. Together they visited Italy and Spain, constituting the Atlas of the Mediterranean Sea. This trip brought the Barents Diploma navigator.
Personal life
A bold and purposeful traveler Villem Barents lived thirst for discoveries. Its biography is not fully covered, so modern researchers cannot provide full-fledged information about it. Having devoted the lives of research and making a huge contribution to the study of the North, it was concentrated on science.Travel and research
In 1594, the planning initiated a research expedition, looking for north-oriental passage to China. The journey took 4 ships, which were managed by Brand Eysbrance, Villem Barents and Cornell her. The path of researchers lying around the Scandinavian Peninsula. The Dutch was at the Kola Peninsula and passed to the north of the new land. Travelers found Wilhelm Island, first saw a polar bear. Protulous to the east, they found themselves on the northern part of the archipelago and discovered a cape called a big ice.
Finding a group of islands, Barents gave them the name Orange in honor of the ruler of the Netherlands. Here the researchers got acquainted with the walrus. The Dutch was visited by the bay of the southern island and opened the bay, which is noted on the maps called black. Since then, the atlas has appeared about the cape of flour.
Having landed on the island of Vaigach, the travelers passed the Ugra ball and found themselves on the mainland. The return path they kept through the shed at the Musheron Cape. Now he is called Deacon Cape. On the way back, the navigators visited the island of the states, found Matveyev, the Halto and the Long Island and completed the expedition.
The second hike was held in 1595th and was a larger scale. Several ships went to the new land and Vaigach, but the hard way was to have been difficult because of the harsh winter. Some crew members died during the expedition. Passing into the east, travelers were in the Kara Sea. Throwing anchor at the state of the states, they donkeys there because of a strong frost and ice, interfering with the passage of ships. The journey was recognized as breaking, and sponsors in the face of merchants did not support the next goal. The navigaters equipped 2 vessels themselves based on compensation from the city council if successful.
In 1596, the third campaign of the Barents took place. On the island, which is now called the name of the bear, the sailors were attacked by wild animals, visited Svalbard, thinking that they were on Greenland, and then rulb in ice. Half the summer they spent from the Northern Cross Island, and then passed to the caution of desire, but the path through the Kara Sea was blocked by ice. Barents again went to Vaigach, where the ship was forever shaped into the ice. Researchers have come ashore. They had to build a wintering house. There was the first in the history of research unplanned wintering in ice.
Death
Having built rude boats, the Dutch, who overwhelmed in the ice, was preparing to sail home. They passed from an icy harbor in Kola. Sea journey made from 1596 to 1597, it became the last for the Barents Villem. He could not find the northern way to Asia. June 20, 1597, the researcher died. The cause of death has become a qing. His body was lowered in the sea water of the archipelago of the archipelago New Earth.Discoveries
Willoma Barenta owns the discovery of the Bear Island and Spitsberena. He made up first maps describing new land. In 1853, the Barents Sea named him. The researcher was studying the land of Franz Joseph, the port of Barensburg. He became a record holder, passing to the North of the Barents Sea and the Arctic Bass. Thanks to him, the length of the archipelago was established. The Villem led the diary, which became the first meteorological notes in Russia. His name is the island in the Svalbard archipelago, the city and the islands of the west coast of the New Earth.