A young female Arctic Fox has traversed land and frozen sea to travel a total of 2,737 miles from Spitsbergen, the biggest island in Norway’s Svalbard Archipelago, to the Canadian island of Ellesmere.

The fox completed the arduous trek in four months, the fastest known time that a member of this species has traveled such a great distance. Researchers from the Norwegian Polar Institute, who originally tagged the young fox, shared that she began moving away from home in early March 2018 and arrived on Ellesmere on July 1 of the same year.

Researchers reported that the fox crossed “extensive stretches of sea ice and glaciers” to reach Ellesmere Island with her longest travel day consisting of 96-miles across sea ice off of northern Greenland.

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