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RASMUSSEN
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I. (noun)
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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
Classified under:
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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