45 nightsFrom Reykjavik, Iceland34 ports of call
45-Day In-Depth Arctic: Greenland & Baffin Island
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Overview
A 45-night voyage aboard Seabourn Venture, departing Reykjavik, Iceland on 31 May 2028 and returning to the same port, calling at 34 destinations along the way.
Reykjavik, IcelandHeimaey - Vestman Islands, IcelandKangikitsokPrins Christian SundQaqortoq, GreenlandHvalseyQassiarsuq (Brattalihd)Nain, CanadaNachvak FjordHopedale,Indian HarbourSt John, CanadaRed Bay, LabradorBattle Harbour, CanadaIndian HarbourNain, CanadaLower Savage Islands, CanadaMonumental IslandNunavut CanadaSisimiut, GreenlandKangerlussuaqSisimiut, GreenlandEvighedsfjordenNuuk GodthaabQassiarsuq (Brattalihd)Qaqortoq, GreenlandHvalseyNanortalikKangikitsokPrins Christian SundUmivikTasiilaq, GreenlandGrundafjordurReykjavik, Iceland
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Itinerary
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Day 1 ·Reykjavik, IcelandEmbark
31 May 2028Depart 17:00Warmed by the Gulf Stream as well as by highly active thermal hot springs and volcanoes, Iceland is somewhat misnamed. While it is a stark and barren country with three huge areas of glaciers, one theory is that early Norsemen sought to mislead other potential settlers by giving a pleasant name to fierce, inhospitable Greenland, and a forbidding name to the imminently habitable Iceland. Irish monks and hermits established themselves here in the 8th century, but left a century later when the pagan Norsemen arrived. Europe's first Parliament of General Assembly, the Althing, was established in the year 930 and still functions as the legislative body, although it was suspended by the Danes at the end of the 18th century and not reconvened until 1843. Reykjavik was the site picked by the island's first permanent resident, Ingolfur Arnarson in 874, and is home to more than half of the island's total population. The world's northernmost capital, Reykjavik is proud of its virtual lack of air pollution. Both electrical power and home heating are derived from the geothermal activity on the island. The city's large swimming pools are always warm, and in the countryside exotic fruits such as grapes and bananas are cultivated in greenhouses made cozy with the help of underground hot springs. - 2
Day 2 ·Exploring The Outer Islands of Heimaey
1 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 11:00 - 3
Day 3 ·Heimaey, Westman Islands, Iceland
1 Jun 2028Arrive 12:00Depart 19:00 - 3
Day 3 ·At Sea
2 Jun 2028 - 4
Day 4 ·At Sea
3 Jun 2028 - 5
Day 5 ·Kangikitsok, Greenland
4 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 12:00 - 6
Day 6 ·Prins Christian Sund, Greenland
4 Jun 2028Arrive 13:00Depart 18:00 - 6
Day 6 ·Qaqortoq, Greenland
5 Jun 2028Arrive 08:00Depart 14:00The largest town in South Greenland with over 3,500 citizens, Qaqortoq was founded in 1775 and still reveals some examples of colonial-period architecture. There is not infrastructure to support shore excursions here, but guests can explore the town and its museum, or possibly arrange a visit to a nearby hot springs. Like other towns in Greenland, there are also possibilities to buy examples of traditional Inuit arts and crafts, including items crafted of bone, soapstone and wild-harvested furs. - 7
Day 7 ·Hvalsey, Greenland
5 Jun 2028Arrive 15:00Depart 20:00Twelve miles by Zodiac up the Hvalseyjarfjord from Qaqortoq, the largest community in South Greenland, lies the most prominent Norse archaeological site in Greenland. The so-called Eastern Settlement lasted from the 10th until the mid-15th century. Your expedition team archaeologist can interpret for you the ruins of the great halls and church at Hvalsey that hint of a prospering medieval farmstead. The site evokes an era when the Norse were trading with the indigenous Thule people of the area for furs and ivory, which were a prized commodities in Europe. A wedding held in the church in 1408 comprises the last written record of the Norse adventure in Greenland. Within a few years, Hvalsey and the rest of other Norse communities of Greenland withered as immigrants returned to the more established communities in Iceland and Norway. The site’s meadows of wildflowers sloping up from the fjord give a sense of the peaceful community that existed here in that long-ago summer. - 7
Day 7 ·Brattahlid (Qassiarsuk), Greenland
6 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 12:00 - 8
Day 8 ·At Sea
7 Jun 2028 - 9
Day 9 ·Nain, Labrador, Canada
8 Jun 2028Arrive 08:00Depart 17:00 - 10
Day 10 ·Nachvak Fiord, Torngat Mts, Canada
9 Jun 2028Arrive 10:00Depart 18:00 - 11
Day 11 ·Saglek Fjord, Labrador, Canada
10 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00 - 13
Day 13 ·Hopedale, Labrador, Canada
11 Jun 2028Arrive 12:00Depart 19:00 - 13
Day 13 ·Indian Harbour, NL, Canada
12 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 16:00 - 14
Day 14 ·L Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada
13 Jun 2028Arrive 08:00Depart 18:00Located at the most northerly tip of Newfoundland, L'Anse aux Meadows is nestled near the fishing village of St. Anthony. It is the site of the first European settlement in the New World, approximately 500 years before Columbus' arrival. Other Norse groups had relocated from their homelands to the New World. In 1961, explorer and writer Helge Instad discovered a group of large mounds in the countryside. These mounds were excavated revealing the remains of a Norse settlement. This site became L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park in 1977 and is noted on the UNESCO World Heritage List of important cultural properties. The site at L'Anse aux Meadows has been completely excavated allowing visitors to see the remains of the homes, a smithy, and various worksheds. The park's interpretive center displays Norse artifacts from the excavation which include iron rivets, a flywheel and the floorboard of a boat. Researchers still debate as to whether the site at L'Anse aux Meadows is Leif Eriksson's 'Vinland,' a lush, beautiful area where he settled in for the winter around the year 1000.
Parks Canada will greet you on disembarking the ship and you may explore at leisure this first settlement of the New World. - 15
Day 15 ·At Sea
14 Jun 2028 - 16
Day 16 ·St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
15 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 21:00 - 17
Day 17 ·At Sea
16 Jun 2028 - 18
Day 18 ·Red Bay, Labrador, Canada
17 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00Red Bay is a National Historic Site of Canada, and has been nominated by Canada for inclusion as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. One of the reasons is the importance of the Basque whaling activity that thrived here in the 16th and early 17th centuries. Sunken Basque galleons and smaller boats from the period have been discovered just offshore. Although the whale population is much diminished today, it is still a popular activity to watch them, as well as the icebergs that float down from the seas further north. - 19
Day 19 ·Battle Harbour, Labrador, Canada
18 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00 - 20
Day 20 ·Indian Harbour, NL, Canada
19 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 16:00 - 21
Day 21 ·Nain, Labrador, Canada
20 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 16:00 - 22
Day 22 ·Saglek Fjord, Labrador, Canada
21 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00 - 23
Day 23 ·Eclipse Channel, Labrador, Canada
22 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00 - 24
Day 24 ·Resolution Island, Nunavut, Canada
23 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 12:00 - 25
Day 25 ·Lower Savage Islands, Canada
23 Jun 2028Arrive 13:00Depart 18:00 - 25
Day 25 ·Monumental Island, Nunavut, Canada
24 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 12:00In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin, on the period’s most technologically advanced expedition, vanished in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. Monumental Island was named by fellow Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall in memory of Franklin. Located in Davis Strait south of Baffin Island, it is known as Oomienwa in the local Inuktitut language.
This barren, rocky and windswept island is home to a variety of wildlife. Nesting black guillemots are the most prolific seabird. The Island is a favorite resting spot for walrus and they may be viewed at numerous haul-outs around the island. The elusive polar bears patrol the ice-floes in search of seals while whales feed offshore.
This is also an excellent location for viewing elaborately sculpted icebergs of all sizes and shapes. Numerous glaciers descend from the island’s high peaks, their crevasses appearing almost to glow an iridescent blue against a landscape of stark white - 26
Day 26 ·Lady Franklin Island, Nunavut, Canada
24 Jun 2028Arrive 13:00Depart 18:00Lady Franklin Island, is an uninhabited Baffin Island offshore island located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Davis Strait, 25 mi from Hall Peninsula. There are at least seven smaller, unnamed islands off its northwest shore. - 26
Day 26 ·At Sea
25 Jun 2028 - 27
Day 27 ·Isabella Bay (Ninginganiq), Nunavut, Canada
26 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00 - 28
Day 28 ·Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut, Canada
27 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00 - 29
Day 29 ·At Sea
28 Jun 2028 - 30
Day 30 ·Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), Greenland
29 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00Sisimiut is Greenland’s second-largest town, and large by Greenland standards, housing some 6,000 people. It is located just north of the Arctic Circle, and is a popular base for visitors seeking adventurous pastimes in the surrounding country. Although there are no shore excursions planned for Sisimiut, guests may wish to investigate the local market, where the products of the country are sold, including meat from whales, reindeer, musk oxen and many kinds of fish. Watch for the stocky little Icelandic horses trotting along the highways, and keep an eye out for sea eagles often seen perched on the surrounding mountains. Whales are also often seen in the sea nearby. On the hill above the harbor, there is an artisan’s workshop where they create and sell Inuit crafts, and nearby is the town museum, which has examples of colonial period houses, peat houses and other early buildings. - 31
Day 31 ·Kangerlussuaq
30 Jun 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 20:00In October, 1941 the United States Army Air Force constructed an airbase at the site of Kangerlussuaq. It served as a refuelling stop for single-engine military aircraft being flown to Britain during World War II. Form their last port of call, Goose Bay, Labrador, it was 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to Kangerlussuaq until they could refuel. Kangerlussuaq fjord (‘Big Fjord’), is 170 kilometers (105 miles) long and was often shrouded in fog, providing a serious navigation problem for those aircrews.
Today, with the use of modern technology, navigation is no longer an issue. The landscape was ideal for the site of an airport. A large alluvial plain, deposited by the nearby glacial-outflow river, provided a perfectly flat environment for an airport. Kangerlussuaq is the largest commercial airport in Greenland and supports a population of 500. A little known fact, from 1971 to 1987, 33 missiles from various countries, were fired from Kangerlussuaq for upper atmospheric scientific research. - 32
Day 32 ·Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), Greenland
1 Jul 2028Arrive 08:00Depart 17:00Sisimiut is Greenland’s second-largest town, and large by Greenland standards, housing some 6,000 people. It is located just north of the Arctic Circle, and is a popular base for visitors seeking adventurous pastimes in the surrounding country. Although there are no shore excursions planned for Sisimiut, guests may wish to investigate the local market, where the products of the country are sold, including meat from whales, reindeer, musk oxen and many kinds of fish. Watch for the stocky little Icelandic horses trotting along the highways, and keep an eye out for sea eagles often seen perched on the surrounding mountains. Whales are also often seen in the sea nearby. On the hill above the harbor, there is an artisan’s workshop where they create and sell Inuit crafts, and nearby is the town museum, which has examples of colonial period houses, peat houses and other early buildings. - 33
Day 33 ·Evighedsfjorden
2 Jul 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 12:00 - 34
Day 34 ·Nuuk (Godthab), Greenland
3 Jul 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 19:00Greenland’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. - 36
Day 36 ·Ivittuut, Greenland
4 Jul 2028Arrive 12:00Depart 18:00 - 36
Day 36 ·Brattahlid (Qassiarsuk), Greenland
5 Jul 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 14:00 - 37
Day 37 ·Qaqortoq, Greenland
6 Jul 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 14:00The largest town in South Greenland with over 3,500 citizens, Qaqortoq was founded in 1775 and still reveals some examples of colonial-period architecture. There is not infrastructure to support shore excursions here, but guests can explore the town and its museum, or possibly arrange a visit to a nearby hot springs. Like other towns in Greenland, there are also possibilities to buy examples of traditional Inuit arts and crafts, including items crafted of bone, soapstone and wild-harvested furs. - 38
Day 38 ·Hvalsey, Greenland
6 Jul 2028Arrive 15:00Depart 20:00Twelve miles by Zodiac up the Hvalseyjarfjord from Qaqortoq, the largest community in South Greenland, lies the most prominent Norse archaeological site in Greenland. The so-called Eastern Settlement lasted from the 10th until the mid-15th century. Your expedition team archaeologist can interpret for you the ruins of the great halls and church at Hvalsey that hint of a prospering medieval farmstead. The site evokes an era when the Norse were trading with the indigenous Thule people of the area for furs and ivory, which were a prized commodities in Europe. A wedding held in the church in 1408 comprises the last written record of the Norse adventure in Greenland. Within a few years, Hvalsey and the rest of other Norse communities of Greenland withered as immigrants returned to the more established communities in Iceland and Norway. The site’s meadows of wildflowers sloping up from the fjord give a sense of the peaceful community that existed here in that long-ago summer. - 38
Day 38 ·Nanortalik, Greenland
7 Jul 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00The immense scale of the peaks around this village dwarfs anything built there. Still, the tall white steeple of the church juts up with a spirit of endurance and perseverance that matches the character of those who make this arctic outpost their home. It also echoes the shape of icebergs floating in the surrounding seas, shed from the immense icefields that cover much of the island. - 39
Day 39 ·Kangikitsok, Greenland
8 Jul 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 12:00 - 40
Day 40 ·Prins Christian Sund, Greenland
8 Jul 2028Arrive 13:00 - 40
Day 40 ·Prins Christian Sund, Greenland
9 Jul 2028Depart 13:00 - 41
Day 41 ·Umivik
10 Jul 2028Arrive 08:00Depart 18:00Umivik Bay, also known as Umiivik and Umerik, is a bay in King Frederick VI Coast, southeastern Greenland. It is part of the Sermersooq municipality. Unlike the jagged and forbidding appearance of most fjord systems in East Greenland, the Umivik area has a relatively gentle shape - 42
Day 42 ·Tasiilaq, Greenland
11 Jul 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00Tasiilaq, formerly Ammassalik and Angmagssalik, is a town in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland. With 1,985 inhabitants as of 2020, it is the most populous community on the eastern coast, and the seventh-largest town in Greenland. - 43
Day 43 ·East Greenland Experience
12 Jul 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00 - 44
Day 44 ·At Sea
13 Jul 2028 - 45
Day 45 ·Grundarfjordur, Iceland
14 Jul 2028Arrive 07:00Depart 17:00The charming small fishing village of Grundarfjörður is located in the middle of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula and thus provides easy access to Stykkishólmur, Snæfellsbær and the Snæfellsnes National Park. Its best-known landmark is undoubtedly the peak of Mt. Kirkjufell. Translated as ‘church mountain,’ Kirkjufell is the most easily recognizable peak, and one of the most photographed mountains in Iceland. During summer months a Viking Village is built in the center of town where Viking re-enactments occur quite regularly. During the Á góðri stund town festival in July, the town’s 900 residents decorate their houses in red, blue, yellow, and green, transforming the town into a spinning kaleidoscope of color.
The town first began trade in 1786, and around 1800, French merchants came to Iceland and settled in Grundarfjörður, where they constructed a church and a hospital. The town has prospered through the fishing industry for a long time. The surrounding sea is rich with birdlife & marine life throughout the year. - 46
Day 46 ·Reykjavik, IcelandDisembark
15 Jul 2028Arrive 07:00Warmed by the Gulf Stream as well as by highly active thermal hot springs and volcanoes, Iceland is somewhat misnamed. While it is a stark and barren country with three huge areas of glaciers, one theory is that early Norsemen sought to mislead other potential settlers by giving a pleasant name to fierce, inhospitable Greenland, and a forbidding name to the imminently habitable Iceland. Irish monks and hermits established themselves here in the 8th century, but left a century later when the pagan Norsemen arrived. Europe's first Parliament of General Assembly, the Althing, was established in the year 930 and still functions as the legislative body, although it was suspended by the Danes at the end of the 18th century and not reconvened until 1843. Reykjavik was the site picked by the island's first permanent resident, Ingolfur Arnarson in 874, and is home to more than half of the island's total population. The world's northernmost capital, Reykjavik is proud of its virtual lack of air pollution. Both electrical power and home heating are derived from the geothermal activity on the island. The city's large swimming pools are always warm, and in the countryside exotic fruits such as grapes and bananas are cultivated in greenhouses made cozy with the help of underground hot springs.
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