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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Canadian explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962) who wrote about blond Eskimos after being told about them by Christian Klengenberg (photo c.1915).

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Canadian explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962) who wrote about blond Eskimos after being told about them by Christian Klengenberg (photo c.1915).

September 9, 2018

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Life of a Danish sea cook and the 'blond Eskimos'
September 9, 2018 1 a.m.

Life of a Danish sea cook and the 'blond Eskimos'

Christian Klengenberg Jorgensen died in 1931 in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he retired after a lifetime in the frozen Arctic. They took his ashes back to remote Victoria Island north of Canada and scattered them at Rymer Point, where he’d built a trading post.