Hans Hendrik
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Hans Hendrik, native name Suersaq (c. 1834 – 11 August 1889), was a Greenlandic Arctic traveller and interpreter.
He worked on the American and British Arctic expeditions of Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Francis Hall, Isaac Israel Hayes and George Strong Nares, from 1853–1876.
He is the first Inuk to publish an account of his Arctic explorations. Hans Island is named after him.
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- Memoirs of Hans Hendrik, the Arctic traveller, serving under Kane, Hayes, Hall and Nares, 1853–1876, by himself — translated by Henry Rink, Trübner & Co, London, 1878.
