He went on his first expedition in 1902–1904, known as The Danish Literary Expedition, with Jørgen Brønlund, Harald Moltke and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, to examine Inuit culture.
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Knud Rasmussen's death is attributed to food poisoning by kiviaq.
Set primarily in and around Igloolik in 1922, the film depicts the relationship between a group of Inuit in Arctic Canada and three Danish ethnographers and explorers, Knud Rasmussen, Therkel Mathiassen and Peter Freuchen during Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922.
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The Journals of Knud Rasmussen is a 2006 Canadian-Danish film about the pressures on the traditional Inuit culture when explorer Knud Rasmussen introduces European cultural influences.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen | Knud Rasmussen | Pamela C. Rasmussen | Lars Løkke Rasmussen | Rasmussen | Poul Nyrup Rasmussen | Rasmussen College | Knud Bergslien | Steen Rasmussen | Michael Rasmussen | Knud Vesterskov | Knud Baade | Karl Aage Rasmussen | Geir Rasmussen | Flemming Rasmussen | Blair Rasmussen | The Journals of Knud Rasmussen | Scott Rasmussen | Robert K. Rasmussen | Rie Rasmussen | Rachel Rasmussen | Louise Rasmussen | Knud Sørensen | Knud Lundberg | Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning | Knud Enemark Jensen | Kim Rasmussen | Karl Johan Rasmussen | Jack Rasmussen | Douglas B. Rasmussen |
Etah was used in the past as a base camp for several Arctic expeditions, including Knud Rasmussen's expeditions to the northern coast of Greenland, Robert Peary's failed attempts at the North Pole, the ill-fated Crocker Land Expedition of 1913, the Humphrey Expedition of 1934-35, the MacGregor Arctic Expedition in 1937-38, and the Haig Thomas Expedition of 1938.
But the information recorded about the Inuit tribes that he met proved valuable to later generations of anthropologists, such as Franz Boas and Knud Rasmussen, who relied on his journals as a reference point for their own observations.