Thule expeditions
The place Uummannaq was roughly where the Thule Air Base is today, to the right of the picture near Table Mountain on the headland
The Thule expeditions were seven Danish expeditions .
These expeditions were undertaken between 1912 and 1933 under the direction of the Greenland-Danish polar researcher and ethnologist Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933), during which the one he and Peter Freuchen set up in 1910 near the Dundas Mountain as a mission station and trading post serving Thule station served as a starting point and source of money. In 1946 the building was given up as a trading post. It was moved to Qaanaaq in 1986 , where it now serves as a museum .
In detail, these are the following seven expeditions:
- First Thule expedition (1912), with the dog sled across the inland ice to the Danmarkfjord
- Second Thule expedition (1916–1918), along the northwest coast of Greenland to DeLong Fjord
- Third Thule Expedition (1919), Grant Land (northern part of Ellesmere Island , Canada) - without Rasmussen's own participation
- Fourth Thule Expedition (1919–1920), Tasiilaq in East Greenland
- Fifth Thule Expedition (1921–1925), from Greenland to the coast of Siberia through the North American Arctic ; besides, many lying on the road are Inuit strains described and a large number of collected objects to the Danish National Museum brought home
- Sixth Thule Expedition (1931), Qaqortoq to Tasiilaq
- Seventh Thule Expedition (1932–1933), Cape Farvel to Ittoqqortoormiit in East Greenland
literature
- Elizabeth Cruwys: Rasmussen, Knud (1879-1933) . In: Jennifer Speake (Ed.): Literature of Travel and Exploration. To Encyclopedia . tape 3 . Taylor & Francis, New York and London 2003, ISBN 1-57958-247-8 , pp. 1001–1003 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).