Overview - Spitsbergen Circumnavigation
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Big Island, Big Adventure
[July 11 - July 23, 2012] The Svalbard archipelago includes the "big island" of Spitsbergen. It is rugged, wild, unspoiled - and utterly unforgettable - as it glistens under continual daylight. Quark's Spitsbergen is rapildy becoming one of the world's great adventure destinations on par with safaris to the Galapagos Islands or Africa's Seregenti. This circumnavigation of Spitsbergen delivers more Arctic than any other Quark expedition in 2012.
Here the mythic ice bear is king. Walrus populate the water surrounding Spitsbergen in great numbers - hauling out on rocky beachheads to rest after feeding in the food-rich icy shallows. Zodiacs and sea-kayaks bring you up-close-and-personal with these and many other Arctic mammals, seabirds and glaciers.
Choose Quark for your Spitsbergen expedition, and join the privileged few to have explored, in depth, this pristine Arctic wonderland
Spitsbergen Circumnavigation Images
Spitsbergen Circumnavigation Itinerary
Expedition Summary
- Day 1
- Embarkation Day - Longyearbyen
- Day 2
- 14th of July Glacier
- Day 3
- Smeerenburg
- Day 4
- Monacobreen, Worsleyneset and Moffen Island
- Day 5
- Phippsoya
- Day 6
- Vibubukta
- Day 7
- Alkefjellet
- Day 8
- Sundneset
- Day 9
- Diskobukta
- Day 10
- Isbukta
- Day 11
- Bourbanhamna
- Day 12
- Alkhornet
- Day 13
- Disembarkation - Longyearbyen
Essential Extras
Extend your adventure with a few days in Oslo, where you can tour Fram, the most famous polar expedition ship in the world.
Spitsbergen Circumnavigation Reviews
Reviews for this expedition
Spitsbergen Explorer
It's difficult to pick only one highlight, as the expedition was amazing from start to finish, but watching a Polar Bear jumping from one sheet of pack ice to another at past 80 degrees north (as our Captain steered the boat through it) is an experience that I (and I suspect everyone else who was lucky enough to be on our voyage) will never forget.
Reviews for this expedition
- Excellent - the trip of a lifetime!
"It's difficult to pick only one highlight, as the expedition was amazing from start to finish, but watching a Polar Bear jumping from one sheet of pack ice to another at past 80 degrees north (as our …"
Ben Garner, August 2010