Castel, Aarnout

He was a Dutch-born whaler. After serving in the Dutch navy he became an Arctic sailor and partner of Gus Masik in fur trading.

He was a sailor on the Belvedere, served as a First Officer on the Polar Bear, as Master of the Challenge and North Star (I).

He married an Inuit woman.

He was the discoverer of Lougheed Island. became a trader along the Siberian Coast, using his own schooner Belinda. Castel helped in an unsuccessful attempt in 1920 to salvage the Polar Bear, which had been stranded at the mouth of the Kolyma River Delta in Siberia.

Castel Bay (Banks Island NT);