Knud Rasmussen

Knud Rasmussen was born on 7 June 1879 in Ilulissat, in Greenland. After living several winters among the Polar Inuit of the north-west, he founded the Thule station in 1910, a trading post for the population and the base for his expeditions. He crossed the ice sheet in 1912, explored the north coast of Greenland, then led from 1921 to 1924 the great expedition that took him across the American Arctic as far as Alaska. An explorer and ethnologist, he collected and translated Inuit myths and songs, and died in Gentofte, in Denmark, on 21 December 1933.

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• TaleMyter og Sagn fra GrønlandKnud Rasmussen · 1921not translated into EnglishLiterature