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TEXT BY MICHELE FOSSI  PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLARA VANNUCCI
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 Willem  Barentsz  was  a  Dutch  navigator  determined  to

 discover the phantomatic “Northeast Passage,” a sea route


 all the way to China along the Arctic coasts of Norway and


 Russia. An obsession that after various expeditions was

 to cost him his life, and which would lead him in 1596—


 quite by mistake—to unintentionally discover the remote

 archipelago of Svalbard





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