Hurtigruten is sailing a “pole to pole” expedition cruise that visits Alaska, the Northwest Passage, Greenland, the Caribbean, the Panama Canal, South America and Antarctica in one voyage.
The 93-day cruise departs Vancouver on Aug. 8, 2022, on the Roald Amundsen. Prices start at $64,581 per person. Click for a map of the cruise.
Passengers will travel to the Aleutian Islands along the Alaskan Peninsula and the deserted St. Matthew Island before crossing the Arctic Circle and heading through the Northwest Passage to Greenland and Baffin Island.
From there it’s on to Atlantic Canada, where guests will visit two locales in Newfoundland and Labrador: the fishing village of Red Bay and Corner Brook, the province’s second-largest city. After a stop in Halifax, the Roald Amundsen will sail to Sable Island and Lunenberg in Nova Scotia. After stops in Maine, it’s on to Cape Cod and Boston.
Then the ship will head southward along the U.S. East Coast to Miami. From there, guests will cross the Caribbean to Belize City; Lighthouse Reef, Belize; Isla de Providencia, Colombia; Corn Islands, Nicaragua; and Bocas del Toro, Panama.
After crossing the Panama Canal, guests will visit ancient sites in Ecuador, Peru, and Chile. Then comes the Chilean fjords and Patagonia before the expedition embarks on its last leg in Antarctica.
Hurtigruten is also sailing a 66-day expedition from Cambridge Bay in Arctic Canada to Antarctica. Guests fly into Cambridge Bay from Edmonton, Alberta. This shorter pole-to-pole cruise departs Sept. 22, 2002, and starts at $50,143 per person.