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Name: Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen
Birth Date: June 7, 1879
Death Date: December 22, 1933
Place of Birth: Jakobshavn, Greenland
Place of Death: Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality: Danish
Gender: Male
Occupations: explorer, ethnologist

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Biography of Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen
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The Danish Arctic explorer and ethnologist Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (1879-1933) was an authority on the folklore and history of the Greenland Eskimos. Knud Rasmussen was born on June 7, 1879, in Jakobshavn on Disko Bay in southwestern Greenland. His...


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1879-1933 Danish Explorer and Ethnologist Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen was a Danish explorer and ethnologist who participated in several Arctic expeditions through Greenland. He also completed an exceptionally long expedition that began in Greenland,...
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Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (June 7, 1879–December 21, 1933) was a Greenlandic polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology"[1] and was the first to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled.[2] He remains well...


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Variety
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen.(Movie review)
10/09/2006: 696 words, approx. 2 pages
(CANADA-DENMARK) An Alliance-Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution (in Canada) release of a Kunuk Cohn Prods., Igloolik Isuma Prods., Barok Film presentation. (International sales: Isuma Distribution, Montreal.) Produced by Norman Chon, Zacharias Kunuk, Vibeke Vogel, Elise Lund Larsen. Directed, written by Zacharias Kunuk,...
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Catholic New Times
Bridging gaps between Arctic and south.("The Journals of Knud Rasmussen")(Movie review)
11/26/2006: 431 words, approx. 1 pages
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen. Directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn. Staring Pakak Innukshuk and Leah Angutimarik. Canada/Denmark, 2006. 112 min. If you saw the marvelous Atanarjuat: the Fast Runner, made in Canada's Arctic in 2001, you may be interested in...
 


 

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