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Just how does the Royal Danish Navy patrol 1,300 miles of Arctic coastline in northeast Greenland through the winter months? That would be the Sirius Sled Patrol, a 12-person unit of the Joint Arctic Command, formed after World War II, who set out in teams of two with a pack of sled dogs to keep watch on the region that also makes up Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest national park in the world. A short summer provides some reprieve, when the unit can patrol the coast by boat. But each August a naval ship delivers over 300 tons of supplies, signaling the nearing of winter and an upcoming eight months of sled patrol through the frozen landscape.

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