Sledge dogs of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949–52

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Reece, Alan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1954
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; Longyearbyen; Canada; Greenland; Antarc*; Christianshåb; Jakobshavn; Polar Record; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400042777; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400042777

Of the sixty-two sledge dogs helonging to the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, twenty-eight dogs came from Jakobshavn and Christianshåb in West Greenland, twelve from Longyearbyen in Spitsbergen and twenty two (including nine bitches) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies. The dogs from Spitsbergen had originated in Canada in 1945; those from the Falkland Islands Dependencies had been bred from dogs originally brought from Labrador in 1945 and 1946. The dogs from Spitsbergen were larger than the others, and several weighed considerably more than 50 kg. The dogs from West Greenland and the Falkland Islands Dependencies were smaller, averaging 40 to 50 kg. At the time when they were acquired by the expedition, the dogs from Spitsbergen and the Falkland Islands Dependencies were in much better condition than those from West Greenland.