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2 unusual facts about Peter Freuchen


Peter Freuchen

He was also employed by the film industry as a consultant and scriptwriter, specializing in Arctic-related scripts, most notably MGM's Oscar winning Eskimo/Mala The Magnificent starring Ray Mala, and featuring Freuchen as Ship Captain.

Freuchen and his wife Dagmar, a fashion illustrator, lived in New York City, and maintained a second home in Noank, Connecticut.


The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

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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