Adventures for Active Travelers
Our Adventure Ships offer itineraries that take active travelers to quiet bays and rocky shorelines inaccessible to larger expedition vessels. In the Arctic, you have a choice of three vessels - Akademik Shokalskiy, Akademik Sergey Vavilov, or Akademik Ioffe. In the Antarctic, Quark operates one additional Adventure Ship, Ocean Nova.
All Adventure Ships are equipped with a fleet of Zodiac landing craft, which are used for shore transfers and for ocean-level expedition cruising.
For an extra rush of adrenalin, adventure options such as kayaking, camping, cross-country skiing and mountaineering are offered on select departures.
Antarctica
Antarctic Adventure
Actively explore the Antarctic Peninsula during a 12-day voyage that departs from Ushuaia, Argentina. A choice of departure dates, ships and cabin categories is available.
Rate range: $4,990 to $12,390
Crossing the Circle: Southern Expedition
This 15-day expedition pushes south with the intention of crossing the Antarctic Circle, and exploring the Peninsula as it heads north.
Rate range: $8,490 to $18,290.
Antarctic Quest via the Falklands (Malvinas) and South Georgia
20 days to experience three different environments, five penguin species and diverse landscapes. This is the quintessential Antarctic experience for active travelers.
Rate range: $8,890 to $25,290
The Arctic
Spitsbergen Explorer
12 departures between June and August 2009 aboard either the Akademik Sergey Vavilov or Akademik Shokalskiy. Spitsbergen is the archetypal Arctic, a paradise of ice and tundra, inhabited by polar bears, walrus and seabirds.
Rate range: $3,390 to $9,590.
Spitsbergen, Eastern Greenland, Iceland
Three countries, three versions of the Arctic - this is the expedition for travelers seeking contrasts of landscapes and culture.
Rate range: $4,990 to $11,790.
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High Arctic Explorer
For those who have never traveled to the Arctic, this is the perfect introduction to the landscape, wildlife and cultures of the high northern latitudes.
Rate range: $4,890 to $8,990, plus charter airfare.
Heart of the Northwest Passage
The quest of the Northwest Passage is distilled to its essence during this voyage through the region most closely associated with Sir John Franklin and Roald Amundsen.
Rate range: $5,290 to $9,690, plus charter airfare.