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De Veer kept a diary of the voyages and in 1597 was the first person to observe and record the Novaya Zemlya effect, and the first westerner to observe hypervitaminosis A caused by consuming polar bear liver. De Veer is the lead character in the film Nova Zembla (2011), a fictionalized retelling of the voyage as described in his diary. De Veer is also the lead character in the book, The Golden Keys (Doubleday 1956, 1970) by Hans Koning, a fictionalized retelling of the voyage of De Veer and the subsequent voyage of Olivier van Noort.
