Contribute to polar knowledge as you join onboard Citizen Science projects alongside naturalists and researchers. Photograph whale flukes for ID, log seabird sightings, and help sample plankton to track ocean health, directly contributing to global research on the changing Arctic.

These hands-on activities deepen your understanding of Arctic change. Learn field methods, see your observations uploaded to international databases, and leave the voyage with sharper spotting skills and a scientist’s eye for the sea.

Explore the world’s largest fjord system, Scoresby Sund, as you board a Zodiac for close-up cruising among luminous icebergs and towering rock walls. When conditions allow, make shore landings on the Arctic tundra for guided nature walks and photography.

Hear how glaciers sculpted this labyrinth of inlets and islands, and learn to read the ice—its colors, fractures, and forms. Guides interpret wildlife tracks, ancient camp remnants, and the harsh beauty that defines East Greenland’s coast.

Visit Ittoqqortoormiit, one of Greenland’s most isolated settlements, where colorful houses perch above the fjord. Walk with your guides to meet residents and hear about subsistence hunting and dog-sled culture, shaped by sea ice, seasons, and community resilience.

Stop by local gathering spots to discuss daily life at the edge of the Arctic pack ice. Your time here supports cultural understanding and fosters respectful connections with a community that thrives amid formidable nature.

Cruise the waters off Sydkap where grounded giants create a maze of ice. Glide beside blue-veined walls and sculpted arches as you cruise among castle-sized icebergs mirrored in mirror-calm fjord waters, pausing to pause for photos and reflection.

Guides explain how calving fronts feed these floes and why shades shift from milky white to electric blue. Hear the creak and fizz of ancient air releasing—an intimate soundtrack to Greenland’s living ice.

Navigate the Bear Islands’ raw shoreline to scan seabird colonies that wheel above cliffs and skerries. Look for Arctic kittiwakes and fulmars riding updrafts over misty headlands, while your guides interpret behavior, calls, and nesting ledges.

These rich waters attract life from plankton to predators. Learn why currents and ice-edge blooms make the fjord mouth a seasonal magnet, and how to keep a respectful distance when wildlife activity intensifies.

Set out on a guided nature walk in Rypefjord’s broad, glacier-carved amphitheater. Trace reindeer and ptarmigan sign, study Arctic poppy and dwarf willow, and take in the sweep of a glacier-carved valley ending in floe-strewn water.

Guides highlight permafrost patterns, lichen fields, and the survival strategies of Arctic flora and birdlife. This gentle walk rewards patient eyes and offers wide-angle vistas ideal for thoughtful photography.

Step ashore at Blomster Bugt, a cove whose name hints at summer color on the tundra. Wander beach ridges backed by cushions of tundra wildflowers and Arctic grasses, where silence and the curve of a quiet Arctic bay set an unhurried pace.

Learn to identify hardy pioneers like purple saxifrage and mountain avens, and how microclimates shelter life here. Low hills offer elevated views across the bay—perfect for framing ice, shore, and sky.

Enter the world’s largest protected area for a rare glimpse of high Arctic wilderness. Depending on conditions, enjoy small-boat cruising and guided walks in a realm of muskox tracks, Arctic hare sign, and stark ranges under vast skies—an experience shaped by permits and ice.

Guides share the park’s strict protections and the science of a landscape largely untouched by permanent settlement. Expect solitude, scale, and a renewed sense of why these places matter.

Step into polar history as you visit Myggbukta, where the remains of a Norwegian radio station and hunting camp sit at the edge of the tundra. Weathered structures and relics evoke a century of polar trapping heritage and early meteorological work.

Guides recount the outpost’s seasonal rhythms and its role in charting weather for North Atlantic shipping. The lonely setting and wind-scoured timbers speak to endurance in an unforgiving climate.

Sail deep into Svalbard’s sculpted inlets to cruise beneath calving glaciers and the serrated peaks of Spitsbergen. Under the Midnight Sun, shifting light reveals blue crevasses, drifting bergy bits, and seal-dotted floes framed by austere mountains.

Your expedition team interprets geology and glaciology, listening for the rumble of icefalls and watching for bearded seals and Arctic fox along the shore. Expect quiet grandeur and camera-ready moments at every turn.

Visit Ny-Ålesund, a small community devoted to science, where international teams study climate, glaciers, and Arctic ecosystems. Walk past research stations to the historic airship mooring mast, a relic of Amundsen’s 1926 flight across the Pole, and learn how today’s international Arctic research base operates.

Guides share stories of exploration and modern monitoring—from greenhouse gas records to seabird ecology—revealing how this outpost connects past feats with present-day discovery.

Join naturalists on deck for guided spotting sessions across open water and fjord mouths. Learn to scan for humpback and fin whales, white-beaked dolphins, and to identify Arctic seabirds such as fulmars, kittiwakes, and skuas riding the wind lines.

Using binoculars and shared techniques, you’ll read sea states, feeding frenzies, and flight patterns. These sessions hone wildlife skills and turn travel days into living field classrooms.

Glide at water level as you kayak among drifting brash ice, skirting bergy bits and cliffed shores in near-perfect silence. With an expert guide, gain a close-to-the-water vantage on ice textures, reflected light, and the sweep of Arctic landscapes.

This optional experience is at additional cost, has limited spaces, and is bookable on tour. Operation is weather and ice dependent; all equipment and a safety briefing are provided.

Discover the High North with your Expedition Team during immersive sessions that help you join a guided briefing on safety, field etiquette, and the art of respectfully visiting wildlife habitats and indigenous Arctic communities. Get practical insight into the landscapes and wildlife of East Greenland and Svalbard before the first landings.

In the ship’s Expedition Lecture Hall, specialists share stories from ice ecology to polar exploration history, using maps and imagery to bring the route to life. You’ll step into the field prepared, informed, and attuned to this fragile environment.