Into the Arctic: Cruising Greenland and Canada's High Arctic

Highlights:

• Navigate the St. Lawrence Seaway and its famed locks
  

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• Cruise Labrador, Baffin Island and Greenland
• See enormous seabird colonies: cliffsides filled with nesting puffins, gannets and murres
• Great chances for Arctic wildlife such as Arctic hare, Arctic fox, caribou and polar bear, plus ringed, bearded, and harp seals; beluga whales, narwhal and walrus.
• Explore remote Inuit villages and learn of how they co-exist with their challenging environment
• Discover an ancient land of tundra, glaciers and centuries-old villages
• Great trip for birders and wildlife watchers, photographers and modern-day Arctic explorers!

This unique itinerary departs from and returns to southern Canada—beyond question the most easily-accessible route available to the Arctic ice. You’ll experience far more than sunrises, of course. On this epic voyage of nearly 3,000 miles, the rugged, remote coastlines of upper Labrador and Baffin Island will be on epic display during the long light of the Midnight Sun.

We’ll keep watch for beluga, minke, and fin whales as we voyage to Red Bay, established in 1550 as the world’s first whaling station. All around, puffins nest and gannets swoop upon the cliffs. Polar bears roam on the ice floes.

And since so few harbors exist in this sublimely rugged expanse, we’ll get a close look at the wildlife with expeditions aboard Zodiac landing craft, guided by our expert naturalists.

We’ll have a day to explore Auyuittuq National Park, which defines the word sublimity with jagged 7,000-foot peaks, arctic foxes, and polar bears. Within tundra and moraine valleys stretching to the horizon, we will likely be the only humans in sight.

More than anything else, however, we will have the rare opportunity to explore the mammoth fjords and glaciers of western Greenland, transiting a narrow, 114-mile fjord to the settlement of Kangerlussuaq; at the other end of our journey, we’ll follow the entire length of the St. Lawrence Seaway, threading the beautiful Thousand Islands en route.

Throughout the voyage, we’ll learn about our effect upon the Arctic, and the Arctic’s effect upon us, during talks with researchers on the cutting edge of their fields. In addition, we’ll be joined by superb naturalists and field guides for an informed discovery of this deliriously beautiful environment.

If you’ve ever wanted to visit Antarctica, but were daunted by the distance, this voyage Into the Arctic is ideal. This itinerary is unique—the experience, sublime—and just a short flight away.