Arctic destinations
Seven coasts, one Arctic
The Arctic is not one destination but seven. The bears and bird cliffs of Svalbard a day from the pier. The fjords of East Greenland under the aurora. The icebergs of Disko Bay. The Passage that Franklin never found. The Pole itself. We have sailed each of them, and we tell you which is yours.
Svalbard
Nine islands halfway between Norway and the Pole, where the bears outnumber the people and the sun does not set for four months. We have sailed every coast of it.
East Greenland
The longest fjord system on earth, the largest national park on earth and a coast with one settlement in a thousand kilometres. September brings the aurora. Ten days here changes what you think a fjord is.
West Greenland and Disko Bay
The coast where the ice sheet reaches the sea. The fastest glacier in the northern hemisphere, the icebergs it sends into Disko Bay, towns of coloured houses on the rock and, in September, the aurora over the ice. The easiest Arctic to reach, and the one with the most icebergs.
Northwest Passage and the Canadian Arctic
The sea route that Franklin died looking for and Amundsen took three winters to sail. Today it opens for six weeks a year, and the ships that go in come back with stories no other coast gives. Ice decides the route, every year, every morning.
The Geographic North Pole
One passenger ship in the world can take you to the top of the planet, and she sails from Svalbard. Three days through the pack ice, two days on it, every direction south, and nothing else like it on any ship.
Iceland and Jan Mayen
Where most Arctic voyages begin or end, and where the best of them linger: the Westfjords, the whales of Húsavík and the volcano that rises alone out of the Greenland Sea. Two nights in Reykjavík either side, and the whole of the North Atlantic between.
Labrador and Newfoundland
The autumn coast, where the polar bears come down to a shore of red tundra, the Vikings built the first European houses in the Americas and a piece of France waits at the end. September, when the colour is on the tundra and the bears are on the shore.
Arctic guides
Read before you go
The guides we would hand you before this voyage: the wildlife, the rules, the history and the practical things, written by the people who plan it.
All Arctic guides
How we plan it
Tell us your Arctic, we build the rest
Every Arctic coast has its own season, its own ships and its own way of going wrong in the planning. We have sailed them all, we plan every voyage to measure, and one Australian specialist stays with you from the first call until you are home.
See the expeditionsSvalbard from May, the Pole from July, the Passage in August, East Greenland and the aurora in September, Labrador in the autumn. We tell you which coast is open when you can travel, and which week of it is best.
Under 200 guests for Svalbard, a Polar Class 2 hull for the Pole, helicopters for the Greenland ice cap, a hull that rides the Denmark Strait. We have sailed the ships we sell and we say which suits the coast and the way you travel.
Every voyage is planned to measure, and many carry offers we hold for Arctic Cruise guests, available only when you talk to us. The whole journey, flights from Australia included, on one proposal in Australian dollars.
Made to measure
One conversation, then a proposal
Tell us what you are hoping for, the ice, the wildlife, the light, who you are travelling with, and we match it to the right coast, the right month, the right ship and the right stateroom, with flights from Australia and our own offers included.