# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/qalaherriaq
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:32:14.608Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/qalaherriaq"
name: "Qalaherriaq"
slug: "qalaherriaq"
description: "Qalaherriaq, baptized as Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua, was an Inughuaq hunter from Cape York, Greenland. He was recruited in 1850 as an interpreter by the crew of the British survey barque HMS Assistance during the search for John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. He guided the ship to Wolstenholme Fjord to investigate rumors of a massacre of Franklin's crew, but only found the corpses of local Inughuit and crew from an unrelated British vessel. With the help of the crew of the vessel, he produced accurate maps of his homeland. Although Assistance initially planned to return him to his family after the expedition, poor sea conditions made landing at Cape York impossible, and he was taken to England and placed under the care of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK)."
tagline: "First Greenlandic Inuk to visit the United Kingdom"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Qalasirssuaq_(Erasmus_Augustine_Kallihirua)_(cropped).tiff?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1834"
deathDate: "1856-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.15
  momentum:             1.875
  historical:           4.407452
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Qalaherriaq"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lbe.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B3%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%85%D1%85%D0%B9%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%8A"
    title: "Къалагьеххйакъ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%96%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%86%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BC"
    title: "ਕ਼ਾਲਾਖ਼ਰੀਆਕ਼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D"
    title: "कलाहेर्रियाक्"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%A1%E6%8B%89%E8%B5%AB%E9%87%8C%E4%BA%9A%E5%85%8B"
    title: "卡拉赫里亚克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124256717"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump