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,... Wikipedia
Born: June 7, 1879, Ilulissat, Greenland
Died: December 21, 1933 (age 54 years), Copenhagen, Denmark
Spouse: Dagmar Andersen (m. 1908–1933)
Parents: Christian Rasmussen and Lovise Rasmussen
Movies: The Wedding of Palo, Knud, and Med Hundeslæde Gennem Alaska
Nationality: Danish and Greenlandic
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