Knud Rasmussen
Danish explorer and anthropologist · Denmark · On the map · Historical Figures · Lived 1879 to 1933 · aged 54
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.
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1933Died21 December 19331927Honorary Doctor of the University of St AndrewsAward1924Charles P. Daly MedalAwardHans Egede MedalAward1923Founder’s MedalAward1919Vega MedalAward1879Born7 June 1879
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Lived 1879 to 1933 · aged 54
