Arctic Circle

A boutique expedition aboard Aqua Lares carries you deep into Svalbard’s realm of ice, light and far-flung history. You’ll embark in Longyearbyen, tracing sheer bird cliffs, glittering fjords and drifting pack ice where polar bears hunt and walrus doze. Expert guides set the pace, tendering ashore for tundra walks and heritage sites one day, then skimming along glacier faces the next. Flexibility is the luxury, wildlife the reward, and every horizon feels newly discovered....Read More

This journey showcases a world of near-endless summer daylight of Svalbard, where polar bear sightings quicken your pulse, arctic foxes play among wildflowers, and beluga whales rise from the sea. With extra time for exploration you’ll have time to linger longer at wildlife encounters and reach remote locations....Read More

Discover Svalbard and the east coast of Greenland, before concluding your voyage in Iceland. Zodiac-cruise among spectacular icebergs, spotting seabirds and keeping watch for walrus and polar bears on the ice. Visit fascinating Palaeolithic sites, and Ittoqqortoormiit, one of the remotest settlements on Earth....Read More

Shorter days in the high latitudes means darkening evening skies, so this voyage stays close to the coastlines of the Arctic Circle, skirting around the Norwegian and Greenland seas, and exploring remote islands and villages of the region. As night falls, look skywards to catch the magical northern lights....Read More

This remarkable expedition cruise departs from the Norwegian settlement of Longyearbyen and explores the island’s the jumbled edge of the north-polar ice cap - a frozen wilderness of precarious beauty and a stronghold of endangered Arctic wildlife. Expect to encounter walrus, Arctic fox, reindeer and one of the Arctic’s highest concentrations of polar bears. This is one of the best places in the world to view them hunting on the pack ice....Read More

Join a voyage to the top of the world! Poseidon are the leading operators of North Pole expedition cruising and the only operator to reach the North Pole at 90 degrees north since no other vessel ventures this far. Their ice-breaker ship, the nuclear-powered ‘50 Years of Victory’, is the only one of its kind in the world....Read More