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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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Second Thule Expedition under Rasmussen DURING the stay of the Crocker Land Expedition in the Arctic, the Jour- nal was privileged to report from time to time various courtesies extended to this expedition by Mr. Knud Rasmussen, Danish explorer. It now wishes to call at- tention to the Second Thule Expedition, un- der Rasmussen, which has returned to its base in Northwest Greenland, reporting success- ful explorations of the fjords of the North Greenland coast. A telegram received on May 27 by Presi- dent Henry Fairfield Osborn at the Ameri- can Museum reads: "Knud Rasmussen on his way back from Greenland. Carried out his expedition and reached DeLong's Fjord. Has mapped all great fjords (extreme North Greenland coast). No traces found of for- mer (Eskimo) immigration. No game and generally very bad conditions. The Swedish Dr. Wulff and one Greenlander perished." A Reuter's Copenhagen correspondent trans- mits a further telegram in which the Danish explorer says that his advance was attended with greatest difficulties; that after Hen- drik Olsen's death "we started on our home- ward journey and reached land on August :J90 24 at Cape Agassiz, in bad plight, without provisions." After Etah was reached sledges with supplies were sent back to the rest of the party but too late to save Dr. Wulff. The telegrams have been sent out by Mr. M. lb Nyeboe, chairman of the committee in charge of the Thule Station, Northwest Greenland, and imply that Rasmussen re- turned from his expedition in the fall of 1917 and probably wintered at Thule, sending let- ters from there to Copenhagen. Letters sent out from Thule in January by Eskimo mes- senger across Melville Bay to Upernivik, would catch the regular mail sledge going southward through the Danish colonies to Holstensborg and the steamer there for Co- penhagen. Thule, situated on North Star Bay, Northwest Greenland, is the northern- most trading station of the world, and was established by Mr. Rasmussen in 1910 for special service to the Smith Sound Eskimos as well as a scientific base for Danish polar exploration. The First Thule Expedition under the leadership of Rasmussen left this station in 1912. It crossed the inland ice cap of Greenland, somewhat south of the routes fol-

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