East Greenland Cruise
Limited availability for summer 2008 expeditions. Summer 2009 expedition dates now available. Please call or email for details
Prices from £2,050 per person
All inclusive including accomodation, sharing triple cabin, cruise expertise, transfers, excluding international flights.
See “Details” on right for more information.
Travel to one of the world’s least visited and most pristine destinations
Incredible landscapes, gigantic icebergs & spellbinding Northern Lights with opportunity to see arctic wildlife including musk oxen & arctic hare
Travel by small ice strengthened vessel offering a very intimate and personalised experience, with excellent expeditionary staff
A wilderness journey for people who do not like conventional cruises!
Voyage on a comfortable ice-strengthened vessel to venture into a white world populated by musk ox, Arctic foxes and reindeer roaming the vast snowy wilderness.
Greenland is the largest island in the world, located where the Atlantic meets the Arctic Ocean, and therefore surrounded by cold ocean currents. Nevertheless, it is home to an array of Arctic animals found nowhere else on earth with eight species of whale including Bowheads, pods of Narwhals or ‘Unicorn Whales’ and Beluga or ‘White Whales’. On this Arctic cruise enjoy watching Musk Oxen, Arctic Hares, Arctic Wolves and a spectacular variety of birds in the day and at night watch the spectacular Northern lighst on clear skies. It is inhabited by less then 100,000 Inuit people, with a fascinating history and culture.
Our Greenland cruises focus on East and Northeast Greenland, among the most isolated, sparsely populated and scenically superb parts of the island. Fortunately, from the wildlife enthusiast’s point of view, they are also the most rewarding regions with regular sightings on this Arctic expedition of Musk Oxen, Arctic Hares, Narwhals and a variety of birds. Access to this highly indented and ruggedly mountainous coast is dependent on ice conditions.
For much of the year, the region is locked in by pack ice, which by late summer has broken up sufficiently to allow vessels such as ours the chance to penetrate and explore places like the world’s largest fyord, massive icebergs, and Ammassalik, the ‘cultural capital’ of East Greenland.
Based on comfortable ice strengthened vessels, with only 50 passengers, proves ideal for these Arctic expeditions. Based as often as possible on foot and moving with small Zodiac craft between landing spots for viewing the variety of arctic animals and wildlife, this is the finest way to explore the Arctic region, and its utter wilderness, peace and colour.
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Dates & Prices for 2008
Please note that availability on these cruise expeditions is now limited, please contact our office for a full availability update. 2009 dates now available
On Professor Molchanov
16th September to 25th September 2008
On Aleksey Maryshev
17th September to 26th September 2008
Arctic Cruise Costs 2008
(based on the 11 day itinerary Keflavik to Keflavik)
Prices in 2008 from:
Sharing triple cabin without private facilities (not available on some departures from £2,050pp
Sharing twin cabin without private facilities £2,350pp
Sharing twin cabin with private facilities£2,810pp
Sharing superior cabin with private facilities £3,140pp
Sharing suite with private facilities (not available on some departures) £3,495 pp
Single Supplements (Single supplements are 1.7 times the cost of Twin Berth costs)
Single supplement from £1,515
What’s Included
Arctic cruise with full board and berths, lectures and guide services on vessel and on shore based excursions and support for a marine conservation project. Included in the trip cost is a contribution and membership to the Scott Polar Research Institute.
What’s Excluded
International Flights to Iceland and travel not mentioned in the itinerary, travel insurance, vaccinations and visas, gratuities, items of a personal nature including laundry and drinks, meals not shown, and hire/purchase of special clothing (or equipment)
This Trip Supports..
Birdlife International
Scott Polar Research Institute
The Arctic cruise boats operate under strict Environmental standards with the least possible harm to this pristine landscape and the greatest possible safety to you as the passengers.
Each passenger with us on our Polar Cruises receives a year’s ‘Friends membership’ of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Britain’s foremost Polar Research and Preservation organisation based in Cambridge.
Furthermore a contribution to Birdlife International’s ‘Save the Albatross Campaign’ is also made, with monies being used to protect the rapidly declining Albatross species – due in part to long line fishing in the Polar regions.
Field Expertise
Arctic experts
To appreciate this extraordinary region one needs the finest naturalists and ecologists to guide you and give lectures and insight into the wildlife and geography, on land and sea.
To this end every cruise has a number of experts to guide you on land and to communicate to you at sea. They include well known experts and naturalists, photographers and writers like Renie Van Meurs, with skills and experience covers history, ornithology, geography, geology, oceanography, marine biology and glaciology.
All are enthusiastic communicators with a wealth of experience in their subject matters and will add greatly to your enjoyment and understanding of this frozen Northern landscape.
Should you wish to get direct feedback from any number of our numerous clients who have travelled with us to the Polar regions, please do contact us and we would be delighted to help put you in touch.
Absolutely fantastic trip. Our highlight was seeing Polar bears with cubs crossing sea ice.
V Silvester, 2007