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Peter and Navarana Freuchen
(20.
february
1886
–
2. september
1957)
was danish journalist,
author and arctic
explorer, and
together with
Knud Rasmussen
he
established the
explorers station in
Thule
in
1910.
In
1911
Peter Freuchen married an inuitwoman, Navarana Freuchen. And
together they got 2 kids, a boy Merkusak and a girl Pipalok.
Navarana
Freuchen participated Peter Freuchen on several arctic explorations.
Navarana Freuchen died in
1921
under a flue-epidemic in Upernavik and was buried on
the old
cemetery in Upernavik city.
When Navarana was not
baptized, the local church
rejected to do the funeral, and then Peter Freuchen and his
friends performed the funeral themselves.
Read
more
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Freuchen
http://northkayak.blogspot.com/2008/07/tribute-to-navarana-freuchen_14.html
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The gravestone of Navarana
Freuchen Knud Rasmussen
Knud Rasmussen
(7. june 1879 - 21. december 1933) was a Danish / Greenlandic polar explorer who explored Greenland in several expeditions.
Knud Rasmussen's old hut "Björne Borg", "Bear-castle" from 1930 is placed on the island Inugssuliksuaq, south of Holms island 30 km southwest of Kullorsuaq. Today, only ruins remain.
Read more
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knud_Rasmussen
"Björne Borg", "Bear-castle"
Viking Rune stone
Viking Rune stone
Kingitorsuaq is a smaller
approximately 300 meter high island located near Upernavik
Ice Fjord in a southerly direction about 20 km from
Upernavik.
On the island's highest peak was a famous rune stone found
in 1824 together with other remains from Vikings.
The Rune stone is dated to the period 1250 - 1333 and is
today at the National Museum in Copenhagen.
Upernavik Museum have a copy.
Read
more
http://www.tidsskriftetgronland.dk/archive/1967-11-Artikel02.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingigtorssuaq_Runestone
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Kingigtorssuaq_Runestone
Location of the rune stone on the island
Kingitorsuaq
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