Gerrit de Veer
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Who is Gerrit de Veer?
Gerrit de Veer was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' third voyage 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.
De Veer is the lead character in the film Nova Zembla, a fictionalized retelling of the voyage as described in his diary .
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