Greenland - Northwest & Thule

In 1910 Knud Rasmussen and Peter Freuchen founded a trading post in northwest Greenland and named it after the legendary island of Thule, which is said to have existed north of the British Isles. The U.S. air base of Dundas, which was set up on the site of the old trading post during the Second World War, has since been extended. The village of Thule (Greenlandic Qaanaaq) was moved north in 1953 to Murchison Sound, 200km/120mi to the north, because the noise of aircraft disturbed the seals and birds on which the Eskimos depend for their living. Present-day Greenlanders are in the main descendants of the Thule Eskimos.

From Thule Rasmussen undertook seven expeditions into the Arctic where he investigated the various