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Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Dutch Greenland commandeur Klaes Pranger de Jonge returned home according to the Dutch newspaper Amsterdamse courant dated 4 September 1721

Adolf van der Laan after Sieuwert van der Meulen 1720-1730

An item dated Amsterdam, Netherlands 3 September reported the arrival in the Vlie of the Dutch commandeur Klaes Pranger de Jonge (2) with 2 whales 100 quardelen returning from Greenland.(1)

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1. Commandeur between 1715-1724, in 1721 for Jan Mol, Zaandam, Netherlands. Alphabetische naam-lyst van alle de Groenlandsche en Straat-Davidsche Commandeurs die sedert het jaar 1700 op Groenland en sedert het jaar 1719 op de Straat Davis etc. Gerret van Sant. Published by Johannes Enschede, Amsterdam 1770, with hand written note until 1794.

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