The Fifth Thule Expedition's Siberian Legacy

• Main Authors: Schwalbe, Daria Morgounova, Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth, Schmidt, Kristoffer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Rasmussen; Chukotka; Alaska
• Online Access: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/69c0da49-7a94-478e-ab63-2116b39c8e92

This article casts light on the last segment of Knud Rasmussen’s “grand expedition,” his trip to Chukotka, in the Russian Far East, in September 1924. He spent somewhere between 18 and 48 hours in Chukotka before he was deported back to Alaska, and it is doubtful that he was able to bring any signif...