Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-xbtfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T14:05:52.994Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Sledge Dogs of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1945–46

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

David James
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In early 1945, having had no previous experience of dogs or dog-driving, I was given charge of twenty-five huskies at the Hope Bay base of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. These dogs were purchased in Labrador by Surg.-Cdr. E. W. Bingham, R.N., and Capt. N. B. Marshall in the autumn of 1944, and were transported to the Antarctic via England. Every man develops his own methods and personal preferences for animal management, and there is a welter of conflicting advice and testimony. In such circumstances it is best for the absolute novice to select the system of one acknowledged expert and adhere to it rigidly.

Type
Articles
Information
Polar Record , Volume 5 , Issue 33-34 , December 1947 , pp. 40 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1947

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 40 note 1 “Sledging and Sledge Dogs”, The Polar Record, No. 21, January 1941, pp. 367–85.Google Scholar

page 41 note 1 Mites were collected from infected animals but were not identified. The only possibilities appeared to be ear canker or sarcoptic mange. The matter is being investigated and it is hoped that in due course a separate note on the subject will be published in The Polar Record—Eds.