Category
page 1Greenlandic Christians
Leif Erikson
norse explorer (c. 970 – c. 1020)
Aleqa Hammond
fifth Prime Minister of Greenland
Rasmus Berthelsen
Greenlandic poet and artist (1827–1901)
Qalaherriaq
Qalaherriaq (Inuktun pronunciation: , June 14, 1856), baptized as Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua, was an Inughuaq hunter from Cape York, Greenland. He was recruited in 1850 as an interpreter by the crew of the British survey barque during the search for John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. He guided the ship to Wolstenholme Fjord to investigate rumors of a massacre of Franklin's crew, but only found the corpses of local Inughuit and crew from an unrelated British vessel. With the help of the crew of the vessel, he produced accurate maps of his homeland. Although Assistance initially planned t