This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons

File:Barentsz arctic map.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Barentsz_arctic_map.jpg(650 × 517 pixels, file size: 102 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Description

Portion of 1599 map of Arctic exploration by Willem Barentsz. Spitsbergen, here mapped for the first time, is indicated as "Het Nieuwe Land" (Dutch for "the New Land"), center-left.

Date Original map 1599. Portion published online by Tromsø University 1999 as part of the "Northern Lights Route" project of the Council of Europe. Uploaded to Commons 2006.
Source University Library of Tromsø
Author Willem Barentsz.
Permission
(Reusing this file)

Public domain (over 70 years since creator's death)

Licensing

Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less.


Dialog-warning.svg You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Côte d'Ivoire has a general copyright term of 99 years and Honduras has 75 years, but they do implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information).

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current09:14, 26 July 2006Thumbnail for version as of 09:14, 26 July 2006650 × 517 (102 KB)TheGrappler{{Information |Description=Portion of 1599 map of Arctic exploration by Willem Barentsz. Spitsbergen, here mapped for the first time, is indicated as "Het Nieuwe Land" (Dutch for "the New Land"), center-left. |Source=[http://www.ub.uit.no/northernlights/e
The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file: