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During his 1553 voyage across the Barents Sea, English explorer Hugh Willoughby thought he saw islands to the north. Based on his description, these islands were subsequently depicted and named "Willoughby's Land" and "Macsinof Island" on maps published by Petrus Plancius in 1592 and 1594 (although he was doubtful of their existence). Gerardus Mercator included them on his 1595 map. Willem Barentsz found no sign of Willoughby's discoveries and omitted them from his map published in 1599, but they continued to appear on Arctic maps published by Jan Janssonius and Willem Blaeu at least into the 1640s.

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  • Willoughby’s Land ist eine Phantominsel in der Barentssee, die vom Ende des 16. bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts auf Karten der Nordpolarregion zu finden war. Sir Hugh Willoughby unternahm 1553 im Auftrag englischer Kaufleute den ersten Versuch, China über die Nordostpassage zu erreichen. Auf dem 72. nördlichen Breitengrad stieß er auf die Küste Nowaja Semljas, dessen geografische Länge er aber viel zu weit westlich ansetzte. Spätere Seefahrer, wie Arthur Pet (1580), Willem Barents (1594) und Henry Hudson (1608) fanden an der angegebenen Position kein Land. Willoughby’s Land erscheint auf Petrus Plancius’ Karte der Nordpolarregion von 1594 ebenso wie auf Gerhard Mercators 1595 postum erschienener Karte westlich von Nowaja Semlja. Schon Plancius glaubte aber nicht an ihre Existenz. Weil Barents die Insel nicht finden konnte, ist sie auf seiner Karte von 1599 nicht verzeichnet. Auf anderen Karten, so von Johannes Janssonius und Willem Blaeu, ist sie aber noch mindestens bis in die 1640er Jahre zu finden. (de)
  • During his 1553 voyage across the Barents Sea, English explorer Hugh Willoughby thought he saw islands to the north. Based on his description, these islands were subsequently depicted and named "Willoughby's Land" and "Macsinof Island" on maps published by Petrus Plancius in 1592 and 1594 (although he was doubtful of their existence). Gerardus Mercator included them on his 1595 map. Willem Barentsz found no sign of Willoughby's discoveries and omitted them from his map published in 1599, but they continued to appear on Arctic maps published by Jan Janssonius and Willem Blaeu at least into the 1640s. A (erroneous) claim propagated in 1612 held that Willoughby's Land was identical to Spitsbergen, thus supporting an English claim prior to the Dutch discovery by Barentsz in 1596. This claim was used to justify a monopoly charter on whaling rights granted to the Muscovy Company in 1613. (1860) believed the two islands to be merely a western transposition of the two main islands of Novaya Zemlya. (en)
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  • Willoughby’s Land ist eine Phantominsel in der Barentssee, die vom Ende des 16. bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts auf Karten der Nordpolarregion zu finden war. Sir Hugh Willoughby unternahm 1553 im Auftrag englischer Kaufleute den ersten Versuch, China über die Nordostpassage zu erreichen. Auf dem 72. nördlichen Breitengrad stieß er auf die Küste Nowaja Semljas, dessen geografische Länge er aber viel zu weit westlich ansetzte. Spätere Seefahrer, wie Arthur Pet (1580), Willem Barents (1594) und Henry Hudson (1608) fanden an der angegebenen Position kein Land. (de)
  • During his 1553 voyage across the Barents Sea, English explorer Hugh Willoughby thought he saw islands to the north. Based on his description, these islands were subsequently depicted and named "Willoughby's Land" and "Macsinof Island" on maps published by Petrus Plancius in 1592 and 1594 (although he was doubtful of their existence). Gerardus Mercator included them on his 1595 map. Willem Barentsz found no sign of Willoughby's discoveries and omitted them from his map published in 1599, but they continued to appear on Arctic maps published by Jan Janssonius and Willem Blaeu at least into the 1640s. (en)
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  • Willoughby’s Land (de)
  • Willoughby's Land (en)
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