Editing Knud Rasmussen (section)

==Honours==
[[File:Knud Rasmussens Hus.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Knud Rasmussen House, now a museum, in Hundested, Sjælland, Denmark]]
In addition to several capes and glaciers, [[Knud Rasmussen Range]] in Greenland is named after him, as is the [[Knud Rasmussen-class patrol vessel]] and its lead ship, the [[HDMS Knud Rasmussen (P570)|HDMS Knud Rasmussen]].<ref name="mapcarta">{{cite web|url=http://mapcarta.com/19190364|title=Knud Rasmussen Land|work=Mapcarta|access-date=24 April 2016}}</ref>

He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the [[American Geographical Society]] in 1912, and its [[Charles Patrick Daly#Honors|Daly Medal]] in 1924.<ref name="amergeog">{{cite web|url=http://www.amergeog.org/honorslist.pdf |title=American Geographical Society Honorary Fellowships |website=amergeog.org |access-date=2 March 2009 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704200812/http://www.amergeog.org/honorslist.pdf |archive-date=4 July 2009 }}</ref> The [[Royal Geographical Society]] awarded him their [[Founder's Medal]] in 1923<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/C5962519-882A-4C67-803D-0037308C756D/0/GoldMedallists18322011.pdf |title=List of Past Gold Medal Winners |publisher=Royal Geographical Society |access-date=24 August 2015 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927221002/http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/C5962519-882A-4C67-803D-0037308C756D/0/GoldMedallists18322011.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2011 }}</ref> and the [[Royal Danish Geographical Society]] their [[Hans Egede Medal]] in 1924.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tidsskrift.dk/index.php/geografisktidsskrift/article/view/4567/8563 |title=Egede Medaillen |lang=da |website=tidsskrift.dk |publisher=[[Royal Library, Denmark]] & [[Copenhagen University Library]] |archive-date=10 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210042432/https://tidsskrift.dk/index.php/geografisktidsskrift/article/view/4567/8563 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was made [[honorary doctor]] at the [[University of Copenhagen]] in 1924, and the [[University of St Andrews]] in 1927.<ref>{{cite web |title=Knud Rasmussen |url=https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/knud-rasmussen/30dc5d04-5eb6-4c3c-b3ad-7e81b98c28cd |website=nordjyske.dk |lang=da |date=21 December 2008 |access-date=31 January 2021|archive-date=23 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023183711/https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/knud-rasmussen/30dc5d04-5eb6-4c3c-b3ad-7e81b98c28cd |url-status=dead}}</ref>