THE LAST HUSKY DOG JOURNEY IN ANTARCTIC By John Killingbeck

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JOHN KILLINGBECK: Worked for FIDS/BAS in the Antarctic for 2 ½ years in the 1960’s. Drove those last huskies dogs and has spent some years lecturing on small ships in the Antarctic.

Been on a Russian nuclear powered air-breaker to the North Pole and Franz Josef Land. Taught at Kelly College from 1964-1986

TALK: For 50 years The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) used Husky dogs to support their scientific work.

This is a story of those dogs, their last journey in the Antarctic and their re-location to the Inuit in Labrador, Canada.