Cruises visiting Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve
The Nordaust-Svalbard Nature Reserve has been protecting the northernmost and coldest part of the archipelago, Nordaustlandet (North East Land), since 1973. This vast polar desert covered by two ice caps is the second largest island in the Svalbard archipelago. Protected by the Gulf Stream, the fjords and cliffs in the west and north are home to large colonies of birds and walruses. The landscapes in the colder east and south are dominated by imposing glaciers that calve majestic icebergs in the vast Hinlopen Strait. Large colonies of thick-billed murres have taken up residence on the sheer cliffs*. You may even get the chance to see a bear or an Arctic fox roaming in the vicinity.
*depending on nesting and migration period
Transarctic, the Quest for the Two North Poles
From
Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen
To
Nome, Alaska
20 nightsaboard the shipLE COMMANDANT CHARCOT
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From
Reykjavík
To
Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen
16 nightsaboard the shipLE COMMANDANT CHARCOT
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In the ice of the Arctic, from Svalbard to Greenland
From
Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen
To
Reykjavík
16 nightsaboard the shipLE COMMANDANT CHARCOT
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*Price is per person, based on double occupancy, based on availability, and subject to change at any time. The category of stateroom to which this price applies may no longer be available.