Coastline profiles and bird's eye view of the island of Kildin and the surrounding region

On the upper side, coastline profiles document the coast between the ‘island of Kegor’, i.e. the Rybachi Peninsula, and the island of Kildin. Underneath, a bird’s eye view of the latter island, with the Bay (here: River) of Kola, and a good anchorage indicated. The expedition ships, which had lost sight of each other, waited for each other here, entering into the bay in the days following 21 June 1594. In the last days of June and the first of July, the various ships left again: the two ships under Barentsz sailed to Nova Zembla’s west coast and northwards from there, while the ships under Van Linschoten and Nay tried to pass Nova Zembla on its south side.

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.