IN THE FAR NORTH
WOMAN’S ADVENTURE. PRESENTATION FROM ESKIMOS. Vancouver, January 11. A woman who claims to have gone nearer to the North Pole than any other white woman is Miss Emmy Landberg, secretary to the Danish Arctic explorer Rassmussen. She is the only woman in the expedition when it goes north. In a 90-ton boat, she travelled with Rassmussen to visit the most northerly tribe of Eskimos in the world, in Greenland. Eskimo women had never seen a white woman. They laughed at her clothes and made her a new outfit of the finest fur she had ever seen —trousers of white and blue fox and a jacket of sealskin. It was so valuable that Miss Landberg presented it to the National Museum when she returned home. Eskimos named her Imuk (Milk), because she was so white.
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Southland Times, Issue 22813, 12 February 1936, Page 8
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138IN THE FAR NORTH Southland Times, Issue 22813, 12 February 1936, Page 8
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