KUND JOHAN VICTOR RASMUSSEN

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Meaning:

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)

Synonyms:

Kund Johan Victor Rasmussen; Rasmussen

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

ethnologist (an anthropologist who studies ethnology)

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))

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