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Profile: Knud Rasmussen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

E. Cruwys
E. Cruwys
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Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road Cambridge CB2 1ER, UK.
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Abstract

Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933), born in Greenland of Danish-Inuit stock, spent his childhood in Greenland. After schooling in Denmark he returned to Greenland for expeditions to the Inuit of the northeast, establishing by his late twenties a reputation as explorer and ethnographer. He undertook seven major expeditions to the Arctic, collecting ethnographic, archaeological, meteorological, geological, zoological and botanic data. His longest and best-known journey was the Fifth Thule Expedition, in which he travelled by dog sledge across Arctic America from Danish Island in the east to Nome, Alaska. His extensive record of the culture of Inuit groups met on his journeys remains one of the most valuable collections of Inuit folklore in existence.

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Polar Record , Volume 26 , Issue 156 , January 1990, pp. 27 - 33
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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