Northwest Passage & Wild Labrador Coast Cruise

Day 1 - Nome, Alaska

Arrive: Wed 27 August 2025

Day 2 - Nome, Alaska

Depart: Thu 28 August 2025

Day 3 - At Sea

Day 4 - At Sea

Day 5 - At Sea

Day 6 - At Sea

Day 7 - Sachs Harbour, Northwest Territories

Arrive: Tue 02 September 2025 / Depart: Tue 02 September 2025

Day 8 - The Svalbard Experience

Day 9 - At Sea

Day 10 - The Svalbard Experience

Day 11 - Cambridge Bay Village

Day 12 - The Svalbard Experience

Day 13 - Gjoa Haven, Nunavut

Arrive: Mon 08 September 2025 / Depart: Mon 08 September 2025

Day 14 - The Svalbard Experience

Day 15 - The Svalbard Experience

Day 16 - The Svalbard Experience

Day 17 - Philpots Island

Day 18 - Pond Inlet

Arrive: Sat 13 September 2025 / Depart: Sat 13 September 2025

Day 19 - At Sea

Day 20 - Sisimiut, Greenland

Arrive: Mon 15 September 2025 / Depart: Mon 15 September 2025

Sisimiut 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.

Day 21 - Ilulissat, Greenland

Arrive: Tue 16 September 2025 / Depart: Tue 16 September 2025

Located in Disco Bay, Ilulissat is home to Sermeq Kujalleq, the fastest-moving glacier in the world. This tremendous river of ice flows from the Greenland Ice Shield toward the sea, funneling through a narrow opening at nearly 40 meters a day. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is the “Mother of Icebergs” that fills its fjord and the bay with great quantities of floating icebergs that parade down the bay and into the Atlantic Ocean. No formal excursions are planned for the town, which is home to about 4,600 people and some 3,500 sled dogs.

Day 22 - At Sea

Day 23 - Kangerlussuaq

Arrive: Thu 18 September 2025 / Depart: Thu 18 September 2025

In 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.

Day 24 - At Sea

Day 25 - Nunavut Canada

Arrive: Sat 20 September 2025 at 07:00

In 1576, English explorer Martin Frobisher sailed into Frobisher Bay in search of a route to China. What he “discovered” was a large inlet with numerous Inuit fishing and hunting camps along its shores. The name Iqaluit means ‘a place of many fish’ in Inuktitut. Although the Inuit people had been here for thousands of years prior, they hadn’t establish a permanent settlement. It wasn’t until 1942 that the first Inuit made Iqaluit home. They settled here to help service the U.S. Air Force base, which was used to ferry aircraft to Europe during World War II. Iqaluit, the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, has 7,700 inhabitants. Some 60% of its residents are Inuit. A highlight of a visit here is the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum, with its beautiful displays of Inuit art, artifacts and dioramas of Arctic life. St. Jude's Cathedral, often referred to as the ‘Igloo Cathedral’ because of its unique architectural design, is likewise of interest to visitors.

Day 26 - Nunavut Canada

Depart: Sun 21 September 2025 at 12:00

Lady 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.

Day 26 - Monumental Island

Arrive: Sun 21 September 2025 / Depart: Sun 21 September 2025

Montserrat is a mountainous Caribbean island, part of the Lesser Antilles chain and a British Overseas Territory. Its Soufrière Hills volcano erupted in the 1990s, causing significant damage to the south of the island and leading to the creation of an exclusion zone. The north of the island is largely unaffected, and has black-sand beaches, coral reefs, cliffs and shoreline caves.

Day 27 - Lower Savage Islands, Canada

Arrive: Mon 22 September 2025 / Depart: Mon 22 September 2025

Day 27 - Resolution Island, Nunavut, Canada

Day 28 - Nachvak Fjord

Arrive: Tue 23 September 2025 at 07:00 / Depart: Tue 23 September 2025 at 19:00

Day 29 - Ramah Bay, Torngat Mts, Canada

Day 29 - Rose Island, Torngat Mts, Canada

Day 30 - Hebron, NL, Canada

Arrive: Thu 25 September 2025 at 08:00 / Depart: Thu 25 September 2025

Day 31 - Nain, Canada

Arrive: Fri 26 September 2025 at 09:00 / Depart: Fri 26 September 2025 at 17:00

Day 32 - Indian Harbour, NL, Canada

Day 33 - Battle Harbour, Canada

Arrive: Sun 28 September 2025 at 07:00 / Depart: Sun 28 September 2025 at 11:00

Day 33 - L'Anse aux Meadows

Arrive: Sun 28 September 2025 at 14:00 / Depart: Sun 28 September 2025 at 19:00

Located 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.

Day 34 - At Sea

Day 35 - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Arrive: Tue 30 September 2025 at 07:00 / Depart: Tue 30 September 2025

St. John's is the most easterly point in North America and closest point of land to Europe. Due to it strategic location, St. John's has been vitally important for centuries to explorers, adventurers, merchants, soldiers, pirates, and all manner of seafarers, who provided the foundation for this thriving modern day city. Explore this, one of the oldest cities in North America, and a city unlike any other. This "City of Legends" is cradled in a harbor carved from granite, and surrounded by hills running down to the ocean. Quaint side streets of a thousand colors are home to friendly faces that wait to greet you.