One-year-old Australian shepherd Nanuq, within the center with Brooklyn Faith, was returned to Gambell, Alaska, on April 6 after he disappeared for a month and walked on the Bering Sea ice 150 miles to Wales, Alaska. On the left are Brooklyn Faith’s sister Zoey with Starlight and on the precise is brother Ty with Kujo.

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One-year-old Australian shepherd Nanuq, within the center with Brooklyn Faith, was returned to Gambell, Alaska, on April 6 after he disappeared for a month and walked on the Bering Sea ice 150 miles to Wales, Alaska. On the left are Brooklyn Faith’s sister Zoey with Starlight and on the precise is brother Ty with Kujo.

Mandy Iworrigan through AP

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A 1-year-old Australian shepherd took an epic trek throughout 150 miles (241 kilometers) of frozen Bering Sea ice that included being bitten by a seal or polar bear earlier than he was safely returned to his house in Alaska.

Mandy Iworrigan, Nanuq’s proprietor who lives in Gambell, Alaska, and her household have been visiting Savoogna, one other St. Lawrence Island group within the Bering Strait, final month when Nanuq disappeared with their different household canine, Starlight, the Anchorage Daily News reported.

Starlight turned up a couple of weeks later, however Nanuq, which implies polar bear in Siberian Yupik, was nowhere to be discovered.

About a month after Nanuq disappeared, folks in Wales, 150 miles (241 kilometers) northeast of Savoonga on Alaska’s western coast, started posting photos on-line of what they described as a misplaced canine.

“My dad texted me and said, ‘There’s a dog that looks like Nanuq in Wales,'” Iworrigan stated.

She reactivated her Facebook account to see if it may be her wandering hound.

“I was like, ‘No freakin’ way! That’s our dog! What is he doing in Wales?'” she stated.

Nanuq.

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The occasions of Nanuq’s journey will probably at all times be a thriller.

“I have no idea why he ended up in Wales. Maybe the ice shifted while he was hunting,” Iworrigan stated. “I’m pretty sure he ate leftovers of seal or caught a seal. Probably birds, too. He eats our Native foods. He’s smart.”

She used airline factors to get her canine again to Gambell on a regional air provider final week, a constitution that was transporting athletes for the Bering Strait School District’s Native Youth Olympics event.

Iworrigan filmed the comfortable reunion when the aircraft landed on the air strip in Savoonga, with each she and her daughter Brooklyn shrieking with pleasure.

Except for a swollen leg, with giant chew marks from an unidentified animal, Nanuq was in fairly good well being.

“Wolverine, seal, small nanuq, we don’t know, because it’s like a really big bite,” she stated.