The supply by air of Exercise “Musk-ox”, 1946

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Winfield, R. H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1952
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Hudson Bay; Hudson; Cambridge Bay; Fort Nelson; musk ox; Polar Record; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400046799; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400046799

It will be remembered that Exercise “Musk-Ox” began on 15 February 1946, when a mechanized force of forty-seven men in eleven Snowmobiles left Churchill on the west coast of Hudson Bay. This force travelled northwards to the Arctic Ocean, and then westwards over the sea ice to Cambridge Bay and Copp...