British Antarctic Survey Sledge Dog Monument

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Campbell, Sandy

• This sculpture to sled dogs stands at the entrance to the British Antarctic Survey facility at High Cross, Madingly Road, Cambridge, UK. The inscription on the plaque reads: \"The British Antarctic Survey Sledge Dog Monument. Admirals, Amazons, Beatles, Churchmen, Citizens, Counties, Darkie & Co, Debs, Gaels, Gangsters, Giants, Girls, Hairybreeks, Hobbits, Huns, Komats, Ladies, Mobsters, Moomins, Number Ones, Orange Bastards, Picts, Players, Spartans, Terrors, Trogs, Vikings, Wags. 1,204 dogs worked in these teams from 1945 to 1993. Erected by their companions and Friends 2009.\"
  In 2015, the sculpture was loaned to the Scott Polar Research Insitute, where it now stands.

• Date created

  2014-07-03

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Sculpture - Polar Regions
  • Photographs
  • Public Art - Cambridge, England
  • Sculptures - Sledge Dogs
  • Sculptures - Sled Dogs
  • England, Cambridge

• Type of Item

  Image

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3GX44X18

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International