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 sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit.
Knud Rasmussen
Rasmussen family house in Ilulissat
Rasmussen in 1924, on the left (with Mrs. Arnalulunguak & Mr. Meetek)
Knud Rasmussen House, now a museum, in Hundested, Sjælland, Denmark
Ilulissat, formerly Jakobshavn or Jacobshaven, is the municipal seat and largest town of the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland, located approximately 350 km (220 mi) north of the Arctic Circle. With a population of 4,670 as of 2020, it is the third-largest city in Greenland, after Nuuk and Sisimiut.
The city is home to almost as many sled-dogs as people.
Image: The colors from Ilulissat Greenland. panoramio
Image: Ilulissat
Image: Sailing in the Icefjord
Image: Rasmussenhaus