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Knud Rasmussen Biography - Danish Arctic Explorer and Ethnologist

Knud Rasmussen Biography - Danish Arctic Explorer and Ethnologist Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (June 7, 1879 - December 21, 1933) was a Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist. He was the first man to cross the Northwest Passage by dogsled. Rasmussen was born in Jakobshavn, Greenland. The son of a Danish missionary and a Greenlandic-Inuit. He was raised as an Inuit, and at the age of eight he received from his parents a sled and a dog leash, and shortly thereafter a rifle. He learned the language of the Inuit and lived through the harsh conditions of the Arctic. At the age of thirteen he was sent to Copenhagen to study, he tried an unsuccessful career as an actor and opera singer between 1898 and 1900 and upon finishing university he decided to return to Greenland. He traveled the Viscount Melville Sound and crossed the Northwest Passage into Canada by sled. He undertook his first expedition in 1902-1904, The Literature Expedition, with Jørgen Brønlund, Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, to examine Inuit culture. In 1908 he married Dagmar Andersen. In 1910, he established the Thule Pass Station at Cape York (Uummannaq) Greenland with his friend Peter Freuchen. This station known as "Last Thule" was the base for a series of seven expeditions known as "Thule Expeditions" conducted between 1912 and 1933. The First Thule Expedition (1912) was carried out between Rasmussen and Freuchen. Seven men participated in the Second Thule Expedition (1916-1918). The Third Thule Expedition took place in 1919. The Fourth Thule Expedition (1919-1920) took place in eastern Greenland where Rasmussen spent seven months collecting ethnographic data, near Angmagssalik. Knud Rasmussen's great achievement was the Fifth Thule Expedition (1921-1924): a team of seven men traversed almost 18,000 miles from Greenland to the Pacific to find the origin of the Inuit people. They collected traditions, carried out excavations and lived with the Inuit. This was his famous "Great Sleigh Ride" to collect and describe Inuit songs and legends. This effort was supported by the University of Copenhagen. This journey was dramatized in the 2006 Canadian film The Journals of Knud Rasmussen. In 1933 the Seventh Thule Expedition began, continuation of the Sixth Expedition, during the Seventh he fell ill a victim of food poisoning, he was sent to Denmark to be hospitalized, the disease was complicated by pneumonia that, finally, led to his death. the age of 54 years. He wrote From Greenland to the Pacific, a work in which he recounts his two years of intimacy with unknown Eskimo tribes. He sponsored the first polar feature film, SOS Iceberg (directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Rod La Rocque and Ernst Udet. #KnudRasmussen #biography #explorer