Bird's eye view of Wardhuys (Vardø) and coastline profiles

On their way back to the Dutch republic, the ships called at ‘Wardhuys’, i.e. Vardø, an island in front of the northeastermost point of present-day Norway. On the map the Norse settlement on the island is depicted, including the church, the fort and the anchorages.

The coastal profiles below it concern a piece of coast east of the Kanin peninsula, hundreds of kilometres east of Vardø, and are not connected to the images of the island and the town.

From Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Voyagie ofte Schipvaart, an account of the first and second expeditions Dutch fleets undertook along the north coast of present-day Russia in order to find a northeast passage to Asia.