Quark First
Quark Expeditions: The Leader in Polar Adventures.
Quark has set many firsts in expedition travel by passenger vessels. Here are just a few:
August 1991
First ever tourism transit of the Northeast Passage, the historic route across the Russian arctic.
November 1997
First circumnavigation of Antarctica for commercial passengers completed.
July 1999
First circumnavigation of the Arctic Ocean.
January 2006
Broke Roald Amundsen’s record, set nearly 100 years ago, attaining the most southerly latitude of any surface vehicle.
June 2008
Quark offers maiden voyage on nuclear icebreaker 50 Years of Victory to North Pole.
April 2011
50 Tours of a Lifetime, National Geographic Traveler for: Three Arctic Islands, 2011
December 2011
Quark launches first carbon neutral voyages on “super yacht” Ocean Diamond for the 2012.13 Antarctic season.
July 2012
First ballooning at North Pole.
