Until the great northern explorations of [[Henry Hudson]], the Inuit were unknown to Europeans other than the [[Viking]]s, who had already conquered the coastline of Greenland from them. Arctic explorers such as [[Admiral Byrd]] and [[Commodore Perry]] wrote about encounters with the Inuit in their journals, which were later popularized in the fiction novels of authors such as [[Jack London]]. | Until the great northern explorations of [[Henry Hudson]], the Inuit were unknown to Europeans other than the [[Viking]]s, who had already conquered the coastline of Greenland from them. Arctic explorers such as [[Admiral Byrd]] and [[Commodore Perry]] wrote about encounters with the Inuit in their journals, which were later popularized in the fiction novels of authors such as [[Jack London]]. |