Count Eigil Knuth (8 August 1903 – 12 March 1996) was a Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer. He is referred to as the Nestor ("elder statesman")...
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Mail Daniel Knuth, American politician, environmentalist and educator Donald Knuth (born 1938), American computer scientist Eigil Knuth (1903–1996),...
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Independence I culture (section Adam C. Knuth)
disappeared.: 737 Danish explorer Eigil Knuth first recognised the existence of both Independence I and II. Eigil Knuth’s intensive archaeological investigations...
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Jensen Ellen Jørgensen (historian) Christian Jungersen Søren Kierkegaard Eigil Knuth Birgithe Kosovic Tom Kristensen Lars Kroijer Cornelia von Levetzow Svend...
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world, was described at Cape Bridgman by Peter Dawes in a letter to Eigil Knuth; they comprise three sites of tent rings and flagstones, although it...
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to the south, Dorset I persisted to at least AD 800. Danish explorer Eigil Knuth first recognised the existence of Independence I and II. Bjarne Grønnow;...
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discovered in September 1948 by the Danish explorer and archaeologist Eigil Knuth during the second summer of the Danish Pearyland Expedition. Occupied...
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field hockey player Eigil Helland-Hansen (1910–1997), Norwegian travel agent Eigil Johansen (1915-?), Danish wrestler Eigil Knuth (1903–1996), Danish...
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Moltke (erected in 1972). Both stations were built on the initiative of Eigil Knuth and have been the basis for many scientific expeditions. Cape Harald...
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traversing Greenland by dog-sled. Victor, Robert Gessain, Michel Perez, and Eigil Knuth completed the 825 km from Christianshåb in the west to Angmagssalik in...
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expedition of 1938. It was explored from the ground by Danish Arctic explorer Eigil Knuth together with Greenlander Jens Geisler in 1950 in the course of the Danish...
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and Eigil Knuth in order to continue the work of the Denmark Expedition. It was an exploratory expedition to Northeast Greenland led by Eigil Knuth and...
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built in 1947–48 by the Danish Peary Land Expeditions on initiative of Eigil Knuth, through an air lift by PBY Catalina seaplanes from Zackenbergbasen,...
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Harald Moltke was built in 1972 near the cape under the auspices of Eigil Knuth. There is also a small airfield near the facility. The Kap Harald Moltke...
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expedition was an exploratory expedition to northeast Greenland led by Eigil Knuth 1946: Operation Nanook was a US cartographic mission to Thule and to...
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Bjarne Grønnow, Jens Fog Jensen: The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe. Eigil Knuth’s Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High...
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Willerslev) and the Arctic region (Therkel Mathiassen, Erik Holtved, Eigil Knuth). Danes have made significant contributions to the field of computer...
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National Park. The name of the fjord was given by Danish Arctic explorer Eigil Knuth during the Danish Peary Land Expedition of 1947–1950. It was named after...
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Greenland. The fjord is mentioned in a letter from geologist Peter Dawes to Eigil Knuth regarding a possible archaeological discovery. Freja Fjord is an offshoot...
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and museum director Lis Jacobsen (1882–1961), philologist, runologist Eigil Knuth (1903–1996), Greenland Therkel Mathiassen (1892–1967), Arctic Christian...
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Klampenborg), a Danish merchant, investor, landowner and philanthropist Count Eigil Knuth (1903 in Klampenborg – 1966) a Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor...
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and the mountains of the interior to the west. It extends between Cape Eigil Knuth (Kap København) and Cape Henry Parish, with Cape Eiler Rasmussen as the...
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Bjarne Grønnow, Jens Fog Jensen: The Northernmost Ruins of the Globe. Eigil Knuth’s Archaeological Investigations in Peary Land and Adjacent Areas of High...
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Greenland with Eigil Knuth (1903–1996) on an archaeological dig to excavate Viking Age sites on West Greenland's coast. Roussel, Knuth and Nørlund returned...
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Per Stig Møller gold Hans Enoksen gold Prince Takamado of Japan gold Eigil Knuth gold Friis Arne Petersen gold Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ silver Mary Simon...
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James Allan Moy-Thomas. In 1939, Nielsen went back to Greenland with Eigil Knuth and Ebbe Munck. Further Greenland expeditions followed in 1946 and 1955...
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previously named by Robert Peary as Mount Wistar (Wistars Fjeld). In 1950 Eigil Knuth, the leader of the Danish Peary Land Expedition, asserted that the mountain...
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223 UWM - Arctic region: Peary Arctic Club, 1898-1902, Wyckoff Island Eigil Knuth, The northernmost ruins of the globe. p. 210 GoogleEarth Prostar Sailing...
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II of Denmark, as the head of court. Jutta Graae, resistance contact Eigil Knuth, Denmark Expedition to Greenland Charlotte Flindt Pedersen, board member...
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Independence I and Independence II had been regarded as the same culture, but Eigil Knuth found in 1956 that the two were separate cultures, because of different...
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