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Noun: Rasmussen  ras-mu-sun
  1. Danish ethnologist and Arctic explorer; led expeditions into the Arctic to find support for his theory that Eskimos and North American Indians originally migrated from Asia (1879-1933)
    - Knud Rasmussen, Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen

Type of: adventurer, ethnologist, explorer

Encyclopedia: Rasmussen, Nicholas