A pastoral Australia made the unimaginable journey of 241 kilometers before returning home, visibly traumatized by the adventure but unharmed.

Nanook’s guardian, Maddie Ivorigan, who lives in Campbell, Alaska, was visiting Savunya, another St. Louis community, with her family. Lawrence Island in the Bering Strait when both of their pets, Nanook and Starlight, disappeared.

The second appeared a few weeks later, but Nanuk (meaning polar bear for the Yupik natives of Siberia) never showed up.

About a month after his disappearance, the people of Wales, about 150 miles from Savoonga on the west coast of Alaska, began posting pictures on social media of what they called the lost dog.

“My father wrote to me that a dog that looked like Nanook had been found in Wales,” says Ivorigan.

She took to Facebook to see if it was really her dog. “I thought, ‘No way! This is our dog. What exactly is he doing in Wales?

The details of Nanook’s journey remain a great mystery.

“I have no idea how he ended up in Wales. Perhaps during the hunt he was transferred to some piece of ice. I’m sure he ate seal scraps, or maybe he didn’t catch seals at all. Probably birds too. He eats everything local. He is smart,” says his “mom”.

The one-year-old pet was brought back to his frozen “home”, where his family was eagerly waiting for him. Although with a swollen leg, a large bite mark from an unknown animal, probably a seal or a bear, he was in good health.

“A wolverine, a seal, a small polar bear, we don’t know because the bite wound was very large,” she says.

Source: Associated Press.