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Born in Wellington New Zealand , he was educated at Wellington College , Victoria University College , New Zealand , and Balliol College , Oxford . He led an Oxford University Anthroplogical Expedition to New Guinea in 1911 - 1912 before being hired as Ethnologist for the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913 - 1916 . He sailed aboard the Karluk with Vilhjalmur Stefansson . After this expedition he enlisted in the Canadian Artillery to fight in World War I . He thereupon settled in Ottawa and became a Canadian citizen. He served as chief of the anthropological division of the National Museum Of Canada . He was granted numerous honors during his lifetime and others posthumously. In 1968 he was made a Companion of the Order Of Canada . The middle peninsula on the west coast of Victoria Island was named for him by the Canadian Government. This landmark led to his name being attached to a rock examined by Mars exploration rover Opportunity . Jenness produced a large body of publishings among which are ''The Indians of Canada'', ''Dawn in Arctic Alaska'', and ''The People of the Twilight''. EXTERNAL LINKS
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