Early Bird Specials:
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Day 0 Montreal or Copenhagen Overnight
Day 1 Fly to Nuuk and Embark
Greenland's capital and home to over a third of the country's population, Nuuk is a city where Scandinavian modernity meets deep Inuit heritage. The Old Harbour district preserves the oldest buildings in Greenland, and the National Museum houses the Qilakitsoq mummies — among the most significant archaeological finds in the Arctic world.
Day 2 Sermilinnguaq, Greenland
Sermilinnguaq is a narrow fjord on Greenland's west coast, one of several small fjords descending from the Greenland ice cap in the area between Maniitsoq and Kangaamiut. The steep mountainsides create one of the preferred halibut fishing grounds for local fishermen, razorbills and Brünnich's guillemots nest on the cliffs, and the remote scale of the landscape is characteristic of this understated stretch of Greenland's coast.
Day 3 Evighedsfjord, Greenland
Evighedsfjord, or Eternity Fjord, is a large fjord northeast of Kangaamiut in southwest Greenland, stretching 75 kilometres with several branches and numerous glaciers descending from the Maniitsoq Ice Cap. The fjord has multiple bends, and whenever the ship reaches an apparent end it continues in another direction. The mountains on either side exceed 2,000 metres and the fjord reaches a depth of up to 700 metres.
Day 4 Sisimiut, Greenland
Sisimiut, Greenland's second city and the largest Arctic community in North America, bridges the warmer south and the frozen north of the island. Inhabited for over 4,500 years, the town is known for exceptional dog sledding in winter and for the Sisimiut Museum — a collection of restored buildings tracing the progression from ancient turf houses to modern Inuit art.
Day 5 Ilulissat, Greenland
Ilulissat, whose name means icebergs in Kalaallisut, is home to the Ilulissat Icefjord, which produces nearly 20 million tons of ice each day. The town of around 4,500 people is the third largest in Greenland after Nuuk and Sisimiut. A local history museum is located in the former home of Greenlandic polar explorer Knud Rasmussen.
Day 6 At Sea
Day 7 Pond Inlet, Canada
Pond Inlet, 'place of bull caribou' on northern Baffin Island, is one of Nunavut's most photogenic communities. Glaciers and mountain ranges frame the settlement, ancient Dorset and Thule archaeological sites surround it, and the waters of Eclipse Sound bring narwhals and bowhead whales past the community in summer.
Day 8 Prince Leopold Island, Nunavut, Canada
Day 9 Strezelecki Harbour, Nunavut, Canada
Day 10 Gjoa Haven, Greenland
Gjoa Haven on King William Island in Nunavut takes its name from Amundsen's ship Gjoa, which overwintered here for two years during his crossing of the Northwest Passage. The Netsilik Inuit had long known the site as Usqsuqtuuq, meaning place of plenty blubber. Artifacts from Franklin's expedition were found near Gjoa Haven, and the wrecks of his ships Erebus and Terror have been located not far away.
Day 11 King William Island, Canada
King William Island in Arctic Canada is associated with the doomed Franklin Expedition, and surviving crew members are believed to have camped at this site, naming it after HMS Terror's captain. Remains and relics of the expedition are scattered across the landscape, and oral histories proved crucial guidance in locating the lost vessels. The wrecks of the two expedition ships were discovered in 2014 and 2016.
Day 12 Flexure Bay, Nunavut, Canada
Day 13 Devon Island, Canada
Devon Island, Canada's sixth-largest island, was first seen by Europeans in the early 17th century, though the Thule culture had settled there centuries earlier, leaving behind qarmat homes of rocks, whale bones, and sod walls attesting to over 800 years of habitation. Just across Lancaster Sound is Prince Leopold Island, a federally listed migratory bird sanctuary with large colonies of Thick-billed Murres, Northern Fulmars, and Black-legged Kittiwakes.
Day 14 Dundas Harbour, Devon Island, Canada
Devon Island is the largest uninhabited island in the world, at 320 miles long and 80-100 miles wide, last permanently inhabited in 1951 when a Canadian Mounted Police post closed. Discovered by English explorer William Baffin in 1616 and not mapped until William Edward Parry's Arctic exploration of 1820, the island shows signs of human habitation as far back as 3,000 years ago in the form of Thule settlement remains including tent rings, middens, and a gravesite.
Day 15 At Sea
Day 16 Qikiqtarjuaq, nunavut, Canada
Qikiqtarjuaq, 'Big Island' in Inuktitut, sits on Broughton Island's sheltered western shore above the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island. Summer nights remain light for months, winter brings the northern lights over the mountains of Auyuittuq National Park across the channel, and the surrounding waters of Davis Strait hold narwhals, polar bears, and migrating Arctic wildlife
Day 17-18 At Sea
Day 19 The Lower Savage Islands, Canada
The Lower Savage Islands are a small group off the southeastern tip of Baffin Island, where polar bears are commonly found during summer months as ice retreats with the warming season.
Day 20 Monumental Island, Canada
Named in honour of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, Monumental Island rises from the frigid waters of the Davis Strait as a slab of ancient metamorphic rock surrounded by vast icebergs drifting from Greenland. The island is a known polar bear den site, and mother bears with cubs are regularly observed here during the summer months when sea ice retreats.
Day 20 Lady Franklin Island, Canada
Lady Franklin Island lies off Baffin Island's Hall Peninsula at the entrance to Cumberland Sound, named after the wife of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. The island's geology features vertical cliffs of Archean rocks among the oldest stone in Canada. The surrounding waters support abundant seabirds, ducks, seals, and walrus, with Atlantic Puffins and the rare Sabine's Gull possible sightings.
Day 21 At Sea
Day 22 Nuuk & Fly to Montreal or Copenhagen Overnight
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