biography
| name: |
Rasmussen, Knud (Johan Victor)
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pronunciation:
[razmusen]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1933)
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| biography:
| Explorer and ethnologist, born in Jacobshavn, Greenland. From 1902 onwards he directed several expeditions to Greenland in support of the theory that the Inuit and the North American Indians were both descended from migratory tribes from Asia. In 1910 he established Thule base on Cape York, and crossed by dog-sledge from Greenland to the Bering Strait (1921–4). |
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