Gouwenaerbåen is a 10m (33ft) shoal or reef southeast of Eggøya, on the southern coast of Jan Mayen

Jan Mayen

Jan Mayen Island is a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean and part of the Kingdom of Norway. It is long and 373 km2 in area, partly covered by glaciers . It has two parts: larger northeast Nord-Jan and smaller Sør-Jan, linked by an isthmus wide...

. It is named after the Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 seafarer Jacob de Gouwenaer, who was master of the Orangienboom in 1614, when he had first come upon the island (although he had been preceded by another Dutch expedition as well as a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 one the same year). His name had originally been attached to Rekvedbukta

Rekvedbukta (Jan Mayen)

Rekvedbukta is an open bay on the central southern coast of the island of Jan Mayen. Rekvedbukta is a corruption of Groote Hout Bay , the name given to it by the Dutch explorer Joris Carolus in 1614...

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