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    Maarten Gerritszoon Vries or Fries, also referred to as de Vries, (18 February 1589 in Harlingen, Netherlands – late 1647 at sea near Manila) was a 17th-century...
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  • Martin de Vries may refer to Maarten Gerritszoon Vries (1589–1647), explorer and cartographer for the Dutch East India Company Martin de Vries (basketball)...
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  • Staten Island, a large phantom island placed north of Japan by Maarten Gerritszoon Vries now believed to be a garbled account of Iturup, one of the Kurils...
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     267. Maarten Gerritszoon Vries; Cornelis Janszoon Coen; Pieter Arend Leupe; Philipp Franz von Siebold (1858). Reize van Maarten Gerritsz: Vries in 1643...
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    Okidaitōjima. The Breskens-Eylant discovered on the Dutch expedition of Maarten Gerritszoon Vries (in the Castricum) and Hendrik Corneliszoon Schaep (in the Breskens)...
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    (1714-2017) Simon Frisius (c.1570–75 – c.1628/29) a Dutch engraver. Maarten Gerritszoon Vries (1589–1647) Dutch cartographer and explorer Sebastiaen Jansen...
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    Ocean on the east. It has a width of 42 km. The Dutch sailor Maarten Gerritszoon Vries explored the seas north of Japan for the Dutch East India Company...
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    explorer Maarten Gerritszoon Vries in 1643. He named the place “Robben Island” for the place, literally meaning ‘the seal island’. Notably, Vries’ crew also...
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    1573 – Antwerp, 1647), 4 works Vredeman de Vries, Hans (Leeuwarden, 1527 – Amsterdam, 1607), 1 work Vries, Abraham de (Rotterdam, 1590 – The Hague, 1655)...
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