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  • Location: Approximately 15 mi/ 24 ki northeast of Iqaluit, Nunavut.

Learn more:

Click here for an article on the basics of mushing, comparing the fan hitch with the tandem hitch.

Click here for an article on igloos. (And here's the Wikipedia article on igloos.)

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Dogs in fan hitch, shown from behind. (Photo credit: Bernard Breton)

 

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Traditional fan-hitch style of dogsledding

 

 

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Tandem style of dogsledding

 

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