Realm of the Polar Bear In Depth - M/V Greg Mortimer
Overview
Highlights
- See the mighty polar bear - the King of the Arctic
- Visit the bird cliffs of Alkfejellet - where thousands of Brunnich's guillemots swirl around
- See walrus - lounging around on ice floes
- Get up close to the wildlife - as you cruise by Zodiac
- Travel in the company of like minded passengers - on board a friendly expedition ship
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Itinerary
Arrive into Longyearbyen (LYR) and make your way to the Arrivals Hall where you will be met by a representative and transferred to your group hotel. Upon arrival at your included hotel, please visit the AE Expeditions hospitality desk to collect your luggage cabin tag...
This morning, your luggage will be collected from your hotel and transferred directly to the port and delivered to your cabin ahead of your arrival on board. Please ensure that your luggage is fitted with cabin tags clearly labelled with your name and cabin number. An...
Wake up to spectacular alpine peaks and glacier valleys of Spitsbergen's rugged west coast. Over the next two days, we hope to visit Magdalenefjorden, where we will Zodiac cruise at a safe distance from the aqua-blue ice cliffs of the 14th July Glacier. Moving onto Wa...
Look out for bearded seal, with their precious curled whiskers. If conditions allow, we may visit the remains of a 350-year old Dutch whaling settlement on Amsterdam Island and learn of an ill-fated ballooning attempt over the North Pole. Our itinerary depends on weather, snow and ice conditions and of course, the presence of wildlife.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Rounding Spitsbergen's northwest coast, we enter the Arctic Ocean and the world of pack ice. Ghostly beluga whale rise up in open leads and polar bear stalk ringed, bearded and harp seal. Offshore, walrus feed on clam or haul out onto beaches, especially on Moffen Isl...
In Leifdefjorden, you can enjoy an abundance of birdlife ;- breeding eider duck, tern, skua, glaucous gull and black-legged kittiwake, attract polar bear and their cubs.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
With 24-hour daylight, there's plenty of time to admire many of the tundra's 164 species of flowering plants, including purple saxifrage, exquisite yellow spider plants and Svalbard poppies.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
We attempt to pass through narrow Hinlopen Strait, a channel flanked by austere, cream-coloured slopes, rich in fossils between Spitsbergen and ice-capped Nordaustlandet. This polar desert is a landscape eroded by severe frost. Even in summer, pack ice could bar our w...
During shore excursions, we hope to spot eider ducs, Arctic fox and the elusive Svalbard ptarmigan. As we pass Barentsoya and Edgeoya islands, we cross polar bear migration routes and hopefully have a chance to spot polar bear.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
This is true expedition cruising, where plans are dictated by ice conditions and our desire to explore. If pack ice allows, we round South Cape, returning to the world of open water and rugged coastal mountains and sail north toward Hornsund and Bellsund, deep fjords with remarkable glaciers and wildlife.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
If ice stops us on the east side, we will adjust our itinerary, backtrack and delve deeper into the wonders of Spitsbergen's north and west coasts, including a visit to colonies where hundreds of thousands of little auk nest, darkening the sky as they commute to their fishing grounds.
Meals Provided : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
A midnight cruise of glorious Isfjorden returns us to Longyearbyen where we end our voyage.
Meals Provided : Breakfast
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