Arctic Complete - M/V Greg Mortimer
Overview
Highlights
- Experience complete wilderness - in remote Northeast Greenland
- Arctic highlights - experience three Arctic regions in one voyage
- Sail from the Land of Ice and Fire - Iceland
- Discover prolific birdlife - ivory gulls, guillamots and puffins to name a few
- Celebrate near endless sunlight - under the glistening midnight sun
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Arrive at Reykjavik Airport (REK) where you will be met by a representative and transferred to your hotel. This evening, enjoy a welcome drink and meet your fellow expeditioners at the pre-embarkation briefing. The rest of the evening is at your leisure.
Meals Provided : None
This morning, your luggage will be collected from the hotel and transferred directly to the port and delivered to your cabin ahead of your arrival on board. Any valuables or personal items should be kept with you throughout the day. Enjoy some free time to explore Ice...
In the Denmark Strait, we sail towards Greenland. Keep a lookout for whale blows and the many seabirds that trail our ship in the ever present Arctic winds. Enjoy the time out on deck and soak up the fresh ocean air.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Enjoy informative and entertaining presentations from the Expedition crew and learn about the ice formations, seabirds and wildlife of this frozen wilderness.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
As we approach East Greenland, we may encounter more pack ice, offering a chance to see seals and a variety of seabirds, including northern fulmar and migratory Brunnichs guillemots. This stretch of coastline is ripe for exploration, with its many secrets locked in place by drift ice for up to eight months of the year.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
The strong icy currents have isolated East Greenland from the Polar Basin, attracting large numbers of fish, seals and whales. Climatic conditions and the concentration of ice in the vicinity, often create thick morning fog that vanishes with the onset of the midday s...
Over the coming days, be prepared to experience ice, lots of it. East Greenland contains some of the Arctic's most impressive scenery. Deep fjords and narrow channels, flanked by sharp ice-clad peaks up to 2,000m. Glaciers create gigantic icebergs that drift through t...
We will attempt to enter the remote and rarely-visited Kaiser Franz Josef Fjord, offering countless opportunities for exploration within the Northeast Greenland National park. Cruising through Kong Oskar Fjord, we will marvel at the geological beauty of the mountains....
We plan to visit the remote Inuit community of Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresby Town) and hike across the tundra in search of summer villages occupied 3,000 years ago by Eskimo. This area provides excellent opportunities for sea-kayaking in it's maze of calm, interconnecti...
Places that we may land along the East coast include Cape Humboldt - a stunning bay on Ymer Island, Seftrom Glacier, where you can enjoy Zodiac crusing and kayaking in this beautiful area and where colourful Arctic flora adorns the tundra ground. Sydkap offers good w...
Over the next two days at sea, enjoy informative and entertaining lectures from our expert expedition team including naturalists and historians, before reaching Svalbard's eastern coast.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
As we cruise east across the Greenland Sea - the main outlet of the Arctic Ocean - we may encounter whales feeding in the productive waters of the north. Sightings of fin whales are common and blue whales have been seen in more recent years.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Over the next ten days, the Svalbard Archipelago is ours to explore. There are many exciting places we can choose to visit and the order in which we see these, will vary from trip-to-trip. Svalbard offers unpoiled, raw arctic wilderness at its best. With majestic moun...
Along the northeast coast of Spitsbergen we enter a different world a polar desert. If ice conditions allow we will pass south through the narrow Hinlopen Strait. The Strait is flanked by creamy coloured slabs of rock that are rich in fossils, as we will discover for ...
Elsewhere, we seek out eider ducks and geese and hope to spot Arctic fox and the beautiful ivory gulls. Polar bears are common in the Hinlopen area. Normally a few summer bears can be spotted on the islands or around the bird cliffs. In spring, Hinlopen Strait is full...
In the far north at Nordvesthjornet and Raudfjorden, Willem Barentsz and his crew discovered new land on 17 June, 1596. They described the land as being 'rugged for the most part and steep, mostly mountains and jagged peaks, from which we gave it the name of Spitsberg...
East of Spitsbergen are two large islands called Barentsoya and Edgeoya. The area has a rich wildlife, especially when it comes to polar bears, reindeer, walrus, seabirds and geese. In the west of Edgeoya, there are cultural remains from European whaling. Edgeoya and ...
We hope to cruise along the west coast of Spitsbergen, visiting intriguing places like Magdalenefjorden, located inside the Northwest Spitsbergen National Park. According to historical sources, Magdalenefjorden was first used by the English in the early days of the wh...
The Svalbard Nature Reserve of Nordaust is the northernmost high-Arctic part of Svalbard. The fjords here are covered in ice, and drift ice floats around the islands for most of the year and glaciers cover large areas of the terrain. This is the kingdom of the polar bear and walrus. It has been protected as a nature reserve since 1973.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Nordaustlandet is the second largest island in Svalbard. The two large ice sheets of Austfonna and Vestfonna cover large areas of the island. The landscape is open and majestic with different types of landscapes, from the prominent fjords in the west and north to the ...
If you have chosen an optional activity such as kayaking, you will have the option to enjoy the activity whenever conditions allow.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
We will aim to have two excursions a day, either exploring by Zodiac or out on land. While ashore, we will hike on lush tundra where brightly-coloured summer wildflowers grow, walking in the company of grazing reindeer. From our Zodiacs, we can observe the towering bi...
Without a doubt our goal is to encounter the majestic polar bear on the pack ice, from the safety of our ship. The expedition crew are as keen as you are to find them and are on constant watch to spot these dazzling creatures.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
During the early morning we sail into Longyearbyen. Upon disembarkation you can enjoy a tour of the town, visiting the Svalbard Museum and Galleri Svalbard, Svalbard Church, Nybyen - or new town, a few of the coal mines situated here, before boarding your bus for your transfer to the airport.
Meals Provided : Breakfast
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