Knud Rasmussen
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Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog
Knud Rasmussen
Rasmussen family house in Ilulissat
Rasmussen, Mrs. Arnarulunnguaq and Mr. Meetek, 1924
Knud Rasmussen receives Charley P. Darby's gold medal from US ambassador John Dyneley Prince.
Ilulissat
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Ilulissat, also known as Jakobshavn or Jacobshavn, is the municipal seat and largest town of the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland, located approximately 350 km north of the Arctic Circle. W
Knud Rasmussen
…the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit. Rasmussen was born in Jacobshavn (now called Ilulissat), Greenland, the son of a Danish missionary, the vicar Christian Rasmussen, and an Inuk–Danish mother, Lovise Rasmussen (née Fleischer). He had two…
The colors from Ilulissat Greenland. panoramio
Ilulissat, Greenland aerial view
Sailing in the Icefjord