Seadog Bamse Statue, Honningsvåg, Finnmark, Norway
On Friday the 19th of June the statue of the sea dog Bamse was unveiled outside the entrance to the North Cape museum in Honningsvåg. The story of the St Bernard dog from Honningsvåg, who was stationed along with his owner on the minesweeper “Thorodd”, has been the subject of great fame in Scotland. During the Second World War, the dog was seen as a true member of the crew. When the dog died in 1944 it was buried in Montrose, Scotland, with full military honours. More then 800 – young and old – attended the funeral. The statue commissioned by the municipality of North Cape is identical to the one erected in Scotland in 2006.
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