Baffin Island & Greenland cruise
Why join this Voyage?
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Travel up the coast of Baffin Island through many seldom visited and uninhabited wildlife refuges
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Hope to see polar bears, walrus and seals along with prolific birdlife
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Crossing the Davis Strait to Greenland and some of the world’s largest and most active glaciers in Disco Bay
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Visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ilulissat Icefiord and Jakobshaven Glacier
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Travel aboard the comfortable 96 passenger Akademik Ioffe, with an emphasis on customer care, offering many adventure activities and accompanied by enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff
Trip overview
A cruise combining the Canadian Arctic’s Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland. This voyage hugs the coast of southern Baffin Island before heading across Baffin Bay to Greenland UNESCO World Heritage site Jacobshaven Icefjord, which calves huge chunks of ice into Disko Bay. This is an infrequently visited area of the Arctic where you can appreciate the immense scale of the ice and fjordlands.
This voyage gives a great overview of the Inuit cultures of both Canada and Greenland, visiting both ancient and modern villages along with Viking sites. You can hope to encounter a wide variety of Arctic wildlife and birdlife including guillemots, kittiwakes, whales, seals, musk Ox and polar bear.
Itineraries (download our suggested itinerary below)