Obsewutions OH u Mobile Arctic Force. 1 The He&t, Physical Fitness und Nat&ion of Exercise vMusk Ox”, Febnwwy-May 1945

• Main Authors: R. M. Kark, R. R. M. Croome, J. Cawthorpe, A. Bryans, R. J. Macbeth
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Midwinter; Victoria Land; musk ox
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.519.9652; http://jap.physiology.org/content/1/1/73.full.pdf

T HE EFFECT ON MAN of the stresses and strains of Arctic travel in North America has never been studied systematically by means of modern physiological techniques. The Canadian Army Exercise ‘Musk Ox ’ afforded an opportunity to carry out such a study. The objectives of the exercise were to send a mechanized force across 3400 miles of the Arctic in midwinter to determine the effects of environmental stresses on vehicles, equipment and personnel, and to collect sicentific data on the Canadian northland. Start-ing in February from Churchill on Hudson’s Bay the 48 men of the moving force travelled in tracked snowmobiles northward to Queen Victoria Land. Here they turned west to Coppermine and moving south along the Macken-zie River basin reached Edmonton in May, with an itinerary shown in table I and figure I. All supplies for the moving force were dropped from aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force. The basic ration was the Canadian Army Arctic Field Service Ration Scale which provides a variety of perishable and