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Peter Freuchen
Freuchen in 1921
Born
Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen

(1886-02-20)20 February 1886
Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
Died2 September 1957(1957-09-02) (aged 71)
Anchorage, Alaska, US
Alma materUniversity of Copenhagen
Known forArctic exploration
Spouses
Navarana (Mequpaluk)
(m. 1911; died 1921)
Magda Vang Lauridsen
(m. 1924; div. 1944)
Dagmar Cohn
(m. 1945)
ChildrenPipaluk Freuchen, Mequsaq
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology

Lorenz Peter Elfred Freuchen (20 February 1886 – 2 September 1957) was a Danish explorer, author, journalist and anthropologist. He is notable for his role in Arctic exploration, namely the Thule Expeditions.

Peter Freuchen with guests at Enehøje on Nakskov Fjord
Peter Freuchen with his wife Dagmar Cohn

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Melville Peninsula

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Survey of Canada, 1983. ISBN 0-660-11485-2 Mathiassen, Therkel, and Peter Freuchen. Contributions to the Geography of Baffin Land and Melville Peninsula...

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Knud Rasmussen

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In 1908, he married Dagmar Andersen. In 1910, Rasmussen and friend Peter Freuchen established the Thule Trading Station at Cape York (Qaanaaq), Greenland...

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Qaanaaq

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attracted a permanent population. In 1910 explorers Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen established a missionary and trading post there. They called the site...

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Inuktun

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The language was first described by the explorers Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen who travelled through northern Greenland in the early 20th century and...

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Freuchen Land

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explorer Peter Freuchen (1886–1957), who took part in the 1906–1908 Denmark expedition and later in Knud Rasmussen's Thule expeditions. Freuchen Land is...

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Guardian. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2011. Freuchen, Dagmar (1960). Peter Freuchen's Adventures in the Arctic. New York: Messner. p. 81. Magazine...

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Dundas

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settlement known as the trading place established by Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen in 1910 in the North Star Bay across Pituffik (Thule Air Base) Dundas...

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List of Arctic expeditions

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Taymyr and Vaygach 1912: First Thule expedition – Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen explores North Greenland and establishes that Peary Land is not an island...

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Inuit culture

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Eneutseak), 1911 Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty), 1922 Eskimo (Peter Freuchen, W. S. "Woody" Van Dyke II), 1932–33 Trial at Fortitude Bay (Victor...

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Nicholas Ray

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World, Ray also drew on the writing of explorer Peter Freuchen, and the 1933 film based on one of Freuchen's books, Eskimo. An epic-scale production, with...

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Ivalu

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one of her middle names. Ivalu is also the name of a 1930 novel by Peter Freuchen. Madeline Ivalu, Canadian Inuk filmmaker and actor Paul-Dylan Ivalu...

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Denmark expedition

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field, returning to Greenland in the decades that followed, such as Peter Freuchen in the Thule Expeditions, as well as J.P. Koch, who led the 1912–13...

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Fata Morgana Land

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near this location by Lauge Koch in 1933, from the air, as well as by Peter Freuchen in 1935 and by Ivan Papanin in 1937. Following Papanin's sighting, Koch...

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Alaska Native religion

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Observing the angakkuq Sorqaq's seance in a community at Qaanaaq, Peter Freuchen explains the motivation in that case: During their seances angakoks...

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Little auk

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Progress Series. 454: 197–206. doi:10.3354/meps09590. Freuchen, Dagmar (1960). Peter Freuchen's Adventures in the Arctic. New York: Messner. p. 81. "Eating...

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1957 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Campbell, Joyce Cary, José Lins do Rego, Alfred Döblin, Claude Farrère, Peter Freuchen, Rose Fyleman, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Sacha Guitry, Laura Ingalls...

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Uvavnuk

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the Fifth Thule Expedition, Peter Freuchen. In his 1961 Book of Eskimos, after half a century living in the Arctic, Freuchen tells the story slightly differently...

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List of Danes

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Bering (1680–1741) Hans Egede Carl Gunnar Feilberg (1894–1972), Iran Peter Freuchen (1886–1957), Greenland Thomas Vilhelm Garde (1859–1926), Greenland Wilhelm...

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Angakkuq

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Often previously transliterated angekok. Oqaasileriffik Freuchen, Dagmar (1960). Peter Freuchen's Adventures in the Arctic. New York: Messner. p. 136. Bastian...

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Falster

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developed into an engine factory Peter Freuchen (1886 in Nykøbing Falster - 1957), Arctic explorer, author, and anthropologist Peter Laurits Jensen (1886-1961)...

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Arctic exploration

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cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. Rasmussen and his friend Peter Freuchen participated in seven Thule Expeditions, named after ultima Thule, and...

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