Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor (1879-1933), was a Danish Arctic explorer and authority on the Inuit (or Eskimo) people. Rasmussen influenced Denmark to improve its treatment of the Inuit. In 1910 he founded a trading station, Thule, in Greenland. Later, Thule Air Base was built there. On Rasmussen’s most famous expedition, described in his book Across Arctic America (1927), he visited Inuit from Greenland to the Bering Strait. His books include Eskimo Folk Tales. He was born in Greenland and was part Eskimo.
