Ultimate Northwest Passage (Kapitan Khlebnikov)
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- Watch the wilderness change before your eyes during the flight from Ottawa to Resolute
- Feel the cracking of thick pack ice beneath the bow of Kapitan Khlebnikov while cruising across the McClure Strait
- Spy kittiwakes and fulmars wheeling through the skies of Lancaster Sound
- Witness traditional Inuit industries and lifestyles in the small settlement of Sachs Harbour
- Develop a deeper appreciation of the Arctic environment, and those who first charted it, through a series of on board presentations
- Scan the Chukchi Seas for telltale signs of a whale blow
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Canada’s national capital and home to the Canadian Parliament, Ottawa sits along the beautiful Rideau Canal and has a vibrant downtown with a thriving market scene and plenty of world-class museums to explore. Plan to arrive and make your way to the hotel in time for our pre-departure briefing at about 6pm.
During the morning charter flight from Ottawa to Resolute, you should be able to see glimpses of boreal forest changing to tundra and then to ice. By evening you’ll be above the Arctic Circle and aboard the icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov.
Radstock Bay has an impressive archaeological site and is beside Caswell Towers, used as a polar bear observation point. Here we’ll also find one of the best Thule sites in the Arctic which gives us insight into how the pre-Inuit people survived and lived. Just offsh...
Prince Leopold Island is located within Lancaster Sound and is home to an impressive migratory bird sanctuary classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. We’ll use Zodiacs to explore along the cliffs of sandstone and limestone that rise up 800 fe...
During these sea days we’ll be icebreaking, taking to the helicopters for sightseeing flights and looking for opportunistic landing possibilities on the top of Prince of Wales Island and Victoria Island. Witnessing this powerful icebreaker navigating the ice pack and feeling the vibration is a spectator sport in itself.
Mercy Falls is part of Aulavik National Park, a polar desert located on Banks Island in the Northwest Territories. Known for its access to the Thomsen River, one of the most northerly navigable rivers in North America, this park is one of the most remote and least vis...
At Sachs Harbour, the most northerly permanent settlement in the Northwest Territories, we’ll go ashore to visit the people of this very small community. The community was named after the ship ‘Mary Sachs’ of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913. In 1929, a permanent settlement was established when three Inuit families settled here to trap.
The western end of the Canadian portion of the Northwest Passage is the focus of today’s activities. Located close to the Beaufort Sea, near the mouth of the Amundsen Gulf, the Smoking Hills are quite a sight to behold; a vast deposit of lignite (carbon-rich shale and...
We’ll be on the lookout for snow and brant geese, tundra swans and beluga whales while in the vicinity of the Mackenzie Delta. The estuary, formed at the mouth of the Mackenzie River where it empties into the Beaufort Sea, is classified as a delta. For 7,000 years sediment brought down river has built up to create a vast surface area where wildlife congregates.
We will explore this unique island situated between land and sea. Its dry polar climate is home to a unique collection of arctic plants, animals and sea life, including the largest colony of black guillemots in the western Arctic. More than 1,000 years ago, Herschel Island was occupied by the Thule people, ancestors of today’s Inuit.
As Kapitan Khlebnikov steams westward across the Beaufort Sea, we’ll be on the watch for marine mammals in the water below and seabirds swirling about the ship. Should we encounter pack ice, the on-board helicopters will take you aloft to watch as the powerful ship crushes through to open water.
Today we continue past Point Barrow, an important geographical landmark, marking the limit between the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. The waters off Point Barrow are on the bowhead whale migration route, which attracted attention in the late 1980s when three grey whales w...
We clear into Russia in Provideniya. Later today we’ll be treated to cultural presentations when we visit the tiny village of Uelen, known for its talented carvers who work in walrus ivory. At Cape Dezhnev, the most easterly point of the Asian continent, the architect...
Today, we will disembark Kapitan Khlebnikov in Anadyr, Russia. You will be transferred one last time from the ship to the airport for the charter flight to Anchorage, Alaska, where you will spend the night. We cross back over the International Date Line during this flight, so when we turn in for the night in Alaska, the date will be September 22 again!
After breakfast, you are free to depart for home, or stay longer in Anchorage. Spend the day taking in the glorious scenery – populous wildlife, spectacular mountain vistas, fascinating culture and icy blue glaciers await your discovery. Relax, stroll through this “last frontier”, take a hike in the Chugach State Park wilderness, or try your hand at king salmon fishing.
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