Cruise Itinerary
Day | Date | Arrive | Depart | Port |
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1 | 15/7/24 | Churchill | ||
2 | 16/7/24 | 2PM | Churchill | |
3 | 17/7/24 | 6AM | 6PM | The Walrus Islands are a group of craggy coastal islands in the Bering Sea, close to the northern shores of Bristol Bay, Alaska at the entrance to Togiak Bay. They are located 18 km to the east of Hagemeister Island, and are protected as the Walrus Islands State Game Sanctuary by the state. |
3 | 17/7/24 | 3PM | 8PM | At Sea |
4 | 18/7/24 | 3PM | 8PM | At Sea |
5 | 19/7/24 | 9AM | 6PM | Digges Island, Nunavut |
6 | 20/7/24 | 6AM | 6PM | Cape Dorset |
7 | 21/7/24 | 11AM | 7PM | Kimmirut is a traditional Inuit hamlet of 455 people, located on the southernmost peninsula of Baffin Island, just across the Hudson Strait from mainland Québec. It is the southernmost community on Baffin Island. The name, translating as “the heel”, is named for a distinctive rocky outcrop that looks exactly like the back of your foot! First contact with Europeans occurred around 1000 AD when Dorset and Norse sailors from Greenland interacted. Intermittent contact continued between the Thule people and the Vikings for another 500 years. |
8 | 22/7/24 | 6AM | 6PM | Akpatok Island is located in Ungava Bay off the northeast coast of northern Quebec and south of Baffin Island. This flat, limestone island has an area of 551 square miles (1,427 square km). The bay is ice-free for only four months a year, consequently Akpatok is a haven for thick-billed murres, walrus and polar bears. |
9 | 23/7/24 | 5AM | 8PM | Lower Savage Islands, Canada |
10 | 24/7/24 | 6AM | 12PM | Named in honour of Sir John Franklin’s widow, the lonely and uninhabited Lady Franklin Island lies off of Baffin Island’s Hall Peninsula at the entrance to Cumberland Sound. The island is named for the wife of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer who died trying to discover the Northwest Passage. The geology of the island is striking with vertical cliffs of Archean rocks, likely to be some of the oldest stone in Canada. The waters around Lady Franklin Island offer an abundance seabirds, ducks, seals, and walrus. View less With a bit of luck it is possible to see Atlantic Puffins here and perhaps even a rare Sabine’s Gull. |
10 | 24/7/24 | 2PM | 8PM | Monumental Island |
11 | 25/7/24 | At Sea | ||
12 | 26/7/24 | 6AM | 8PM | Greenland’s capital boasts some 16,000 inhabitants. Although the town does not offer us any shore excursions, there are several attractions which guests may wish to visit. One is the roofed town market, where the products of the nearby sea and wilderness are for sale, including the meat of whales, seals, birds and fish. The Katuaq Cultural Center offers changing exhibitions. Especially worth a visit is the National Museum, which besides many historic objects, contains the quite famous 500-year old mummies recovered from Qilakitsoq. The nearby Museum of Art has works by both Inuit and Nordic artists. There is also an artisan’s center where guests may purchase locally produced works, and a collection of traditional houses. |
13 | 27/7/24 | 7AM | 7AM | Evighedsfjorden |
13 | 27/7/24 | 9AM | 1PM | At Sea |
14 | 28/7/24 | 4PM | 10PM | Kangaamiut, Greenland |
14 | 28/7/24 | 6AM | 2PM | Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), Greenland |
15 | 29/7/24 | 5AM | 5PM | Kangerlussuaq is a settlement in western Greenland in the Qeqqata municipality located at the head of the fjord of the same name (Danish: Søndre Strømfjord). It is Greenland's main air transport hub and the site of Greenland's largest commercial airport. The airport dates from American settlement during and after World War II, when the site was known as Bluie West-8 and Sondrestrom Air Base. The Kangerlussuaq area is also home to Greenland's most diverse terrestrial fauna, including muskoxen, caribou, and gyrfalcons. View less The settlement's economy and population of 512 is almost entirely reliant on the airport and tourist industry. |
16 | 30/7/24 | 6AM | 12PM | Kangaamiut, Greenland |
16 | 30/7/24 | 2PM | 7PM | Evighedsfjorden |
17 | 31/7/24 | 7AM | 8PM | Greenland’s capital boasts some 16,000 inhabitants. Although the town does not offer us any shore excursions, there are several attractions which guests may wish to visit. One is the roofed town market, where the products of the nearby sea and wilderness are for sale, including the meat of whales, seals, birds and fish. The Katuaq Cultural Center offers changing exhibitions. Especially worth a visit is the National Museum, which besides many historic objects, contains the quite famous 500-year old mummies recovered from Qilakitsoq. The nearby Museum of Art has works by both Inuit and Nordic artists. There is also an artisan’s center where guests may purchase locally produced works, and a collection of traditional houses. |
18 | 1/8/24 | 11AM | 7PM | Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), Greenland |
19 | 2/8/24 | 9AM | 9PM | Located in Disco Bay, Ilulissat is home to Sermeq Kujalleq, the fastest-moving glacier in the world. This tremendous river of ice flows from the Greenland Ice Shield toward the sea, funneling through a narrow opening at nearly 40 meters a day. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is the “Mother of Icebergs” that fills its fjord and the bay with great quantities of floating icebergs that parade down the bay and into the Atlantic Ocean. No formal excursions are planned for the town, which is home to about 4,600 people and some 3,500 sled dogs. |
20 | 3/8/24 | 4AM | 10AM | At Sea |
20 | 3/8/24 | 3PM | 8PM | Saqqaq |
21 | 4/8/24 | 8AM | 2PM | Fjords were carved by glaciers and Uummannaq Fjord must have been carved by an enormous one in the past. This fjord is about 160 km (100 miles) long and 24–48 km (15–30 miles) wide as it extends eastward to the Greenland ice cap. The main fjord divides into several smaller fjords also fed by glaciers. Store Glacier, or Great Qarajaq, is one of the world’s fastest moving at 5.7 km (3.5 miles) a year. It sheds icebergs that float, melt, develop strange shapes and pose for photographers. |
22 | 5/8/24 | 6AM | 11AM | At Sea |
22 | 5/8/24 | 2PM | 7PM | Upernavik |
23 | 6/8/24 | 5AM | 12PM | At Sea |
24 | 7/8/24 | 5AM | 11AM | Cape York is a cape on the northwestern coast of Greenland, in northern Baffin Bay |
25 | 8/8/24 | 7AM | Pond Inlet |
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