Inuit Group Given Full Status at International Shipping Body

Inuit group given full status at international shipping body

The Inuit Circumpolar Council had its International Maritime Organization status upgraded, keeping the ICC's "seat at the table" for global shipping standards. The post Inuit group given full status at international shipping body first appeared on Cabin Radio.

Discovering Inuit cultures across the Arctic

Knud Rasmussen, son of a Danish preacher, but one quarter Inuit through his mother’s side, was born in western Greenland in 1879 and grew up there before completing his education in Denmark. He returned to Greenland in 1902 as a member of the Danish Literary Expedition, which combined mapping with ethnographic research, and in 1910 he settled in northwest Greenland with another Danish explorer, Peter Freuchen, with whom he set up a trading post.…