IGLOO THE EXPLORER

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1930, Page 1

IGLOO THE EXPLORER

REAR-ADMIRAL BYRD’S DOG

CHRISTCHURCH, April 8

Probably the most-travelled dog in the world to-day is llear-Adniiral Byrd’s fox terrier, Igloo. Igloo has been at the North Pole with his master. He has also been at the bottom of the world, to the South Pole, where hq held undisputed dominion over all the other dogs there.

“He thinks lie’s the Crown Prince,” Rear-Admiral Byrd told an interviewer last evening, “for everything rolls aroung Igloo.”

Igloo found it necessary to wear little white boots at the South Pole to keep oqt the cold, and when the weather became severe he had his own little shelter to protect him from the stoi;my blast. It is colder at the South Pole that at the North, as Igloo was quick to learn. That he is a famous dog was shown by the remarkable interest which the people of Christchurch took in him yesterday. He was produced at the civic reception and cheered, and when the formalities were over he was mobbed by a host of admirers. A well-bred dog, he bore it stoically, and barked only when the National Anthem was sung, and was sharply rebuked by the Rear-Admiral for his lack of respect.

Tgloo has been Rear-Admiral Byrd’s dog for four years. He is named after the snow houses in which the Esquimaux inhabiting the Arctic regions live, and, like an igloo, he is white.