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The Knud Rasmussen Glacier is located in the far northwest of Greenland, to the north of the Thule Air Base. It is one of four large glaciers which feeds the Wolstenholme Fjord (sometimes referred to as "the world's largest ice machine"). The other glaciers are the Salisbury Glacier, the Chamberlin Glacier, and the Harald Moltke Glacier. The Knud Rasmussen Glacier is over 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) in length and is approximately 900 metres (3,000 ft) in width.

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Knud Rasmussen Glacier

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The Knud Rasmussen Glacier is located in the far northwest of Greenland, to the north of the Thule Air Base. It is one of four large glaciers which feeds...

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Knud Rasmussen

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Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (/ˈræsmʊsən/; 7 June 1879 – 21 December 1933) was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called...

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Fluvioglacial landform

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on the surface and within the glacier. The deposits that happen within the glacier are revealed after the entire glacier melts or partially retreats. Fluvio-glacial...

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Knud Rasmussen Range

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The Knud Rasmussen Range (Danish: Knud Rasmussen Bjerge), also known as Usugdluk, is a mountain range in West Greenland. Administratively this range is...

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List of glaciers in Greenland

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Glacier Kangerdluarssup Sermia Kangiata Nunata Sermia Karale Glacier Knud Rasmussen Glacier King Oscar Glacier Kjer Glacier K.J.V. Steenstrup Glacier...

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Salisbury Glacier

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other glaciers are the Chamberlin Glacier, the Knud Rasmussen Glacier, and the Harald Moltke Glacier. The Salisbury Glacier is over 3 kilometres (1.9 mi)...

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Harald Moltke Glacier

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other glaciers are the Salisbury Glacier, the Chamberlin Glacier, and the Knud Rasmussen Glacier. The Harald Moltke Glacier is over 5 kilometres (3.1 mi)...

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Wolstenholme Fjord

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fed by four large glaciers: the Salisbury Glacier, the Chamberlin Glacier, the Knud Rasmussen Glacier, and the Harald Moltke Glacier. List of fjords of...

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Karale Glacier

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List of features in Greenland named after Greenlandic Inuit

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explorer Knud Rasmussen was partly of Greenlandic origin and several places and landforms in Greenland, such as the Knud Rasmussen Range and Knud Rasmussen Land...

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Watkins Range

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the Watkins Range by the Christian IV Glacier. 'Rasmussens Range' (Knud Rasmussens Bjerge), from Knud Rasmussen Land mountains, is the name used in some...

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Ilulissat

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boiling blubber in Ilulissat, Greenland Knud Rasmussen's birthplace in Ilulissat, Greenland; Knud Rasmussen's Museum Kayaking in Ilulissat Dog sled sign...

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Petermann Fjord

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National Park. The fjord and its glacier are named after German cartographer August Heinrich Petermann. Knud Rasmussen described the fjord entrance in...

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Outwash fan

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sediments deposited by braided streams from a melting glacier. Sediment locked within the ice of the glacier gets transported by the streams of meltwater, and...

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Steensby Glacier

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Steensby Glacier (Danish: Steensby Gletscher) is a major glacier in northern Greenland. This glacier was first mapped in 1917 during Knud Rasmussen's 1916–1918...

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List of mountain ranges of Greenland

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Land. Knud Rasmussen Range (Knud Rasmussen Bjerge), located in West Greenland, south of Tycho Brahe Lake at the terminus of J.P. Koch Glacier. Lacroix...

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Tourism in Greenland

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station north of Ilulissat Knud Rasmussen's Museum - Museum dedicated to the Greenlandic–Danish polar explorer Knud Rasmussen Zions Church Greenland National...

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Freuchen Land

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(1886–1957), who took part in the 1906–1908 Denmark expedition and later in Knud Rasmussen's Thule expeditions. Freuchen Land is located to the northeast of Nares...

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Thorild Wulff

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Häcklefjäll" 1913). He participated in the Second Thule Expedition led by Knud Rasmussen from Thule to Cape Bridgman in the northeastern corner of Peary Land...

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Wulff Land

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botanist and Arctic explorer Thorild Wulff (1867–1917), who went with Knud Rasmussen on the Second Thule Expedition and died from fatigue near Cape Agassiz...

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