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East Greenland views (explore)
the rugged land of Scoresby Sound in east Greenland. With dramatic mountain ridges , glacial outlets and icebergs. the photo was taken from our sailing boat a beautiful morning The scale of wilderness of Greenland is difficult to comprehend. ‘there’s nothing for miles and miles but miles and miles.”Rassmunsen was the only explorer to believe that the traverse has to be done from the East, across the Northwest Passage by dog sled. The Greenlandic anthropologist , together with his two crew mates, a woman called Arnarulunguak and a young man called Qaavigarsuak, left Greenland in 1921 on his fifth and by far the most ambitious Thule expedition. It was a three years dog sledding expedition across Arctic Canada and Alaska to Eastern Siberia. Here visitgreenland.com/knud-rasmussens-fifth-thule-expedition/ you can find an overview of the expedition, its purpose, achievements and participants. Knud Rasmussen, or Kunuunnguaq as he was called home in Greenland, became a well known man across the Arctic. He conducted a number of expeditions and managed to prove that the Inuit of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia all have the same origin. Although their way of life differed considerably sometimes according to living conditions, primary prey and way of life, they were all connected through language, mythology and common stories that traced hundreds or even thousands of years back.
East Greenland views (explore)
the rugged land of Scoresby Sound in east Greenland. With dramatic mountain ridges , glacial outlets and icebergs. the photo was taken from our sailing boat a beautiful morning The scale of wilderness of Greenland is difficult to comprehend. ‘there’s nothing for miles and miles but miles and miles.”Rassmunsen was the only explorer to believe that the traverse has to be done from the East, across the Northwest Passage by dog sled. The Greenlandic anthropologist , together with his two crew mates, a woman called Arnarulunguak and a young man called Qaavigarsuak, left Greenland in 1921 on his fifth and by far the most ambitious Thule expedition. It was a three years dog sledding expedition across Arctic Canada and Alaska to Eastern Siberia. Here visitgreenland.com/knud-rasmussens-fifth-thule-expedition/ you can find an overview of the expedition, its purpose, achievements and participants. Knud Rasmussen, or Kunuunnguaq as he was called home in Greenland, became a well known man across the Arctic. He conducted a number of expeditions and managed to prove that the Inuit of Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia all have the same origin. Although their way of life differed considerably sometimes according to living conditions, primary prey and way of life, they were all connected through language, mythology and common stories that traced hundreds or even thousands of years back.