Recommended reading material, skip the movie though. The journey was famously captured in the journals of two crewmembers, which was later published in a book and later inspired a movie. He died during one of his exploratory journeys where he discovered Nova Zembla and was stranded here with is crew for a year in extremely harsh weather, surrounded by hungry polar bears. Willem Baretsz: Arctic explorer that mapped out much of the Barents Sea, which was named after him. The amount captured is worth about 300 million euro in todays money. Piet Hein: Lieutenant-Admiral of the Dutch fleet that conquered a Spanish fleet carrying silver and many other goods from the New World, with little to no casualties on either side.
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