We start the day with a guided sightseeing trip including a visit to Svalbard Museum. This tour ends at the pier, where MS Nordstjernen will be ready for embarkation. Once underway, we set a course for the Russian settlement of Barentsburg where there will be opportunities to visit the Pomor Museum (optional) and enjoy a lively folklore show. After this visit we will continue out of Isfjord and head north along the Prins Karls Forland.

The North West Corner is scattered with islands, fjords and beaches and has a long history of exploration. Magdalenefjord is one of the fjords that we aim to visit. Here you’ll experience a high density of cultural heritage; a whaling station from the 16th century and a graveyard of whalers that died during the first “oil goldrush”. We arrive in Magdalenefjord in the morning, and hope to make our first Polarcirkel boat landing here.

North Spitsbergen offers a strikingly varied landscape – from the largest flat plain on Svalbard; Reinsdyrflya (the reindeer plain), to the red stone of Devonian geology, remnants of volcanoes and even the northernmost hot spring on Earth. The day will be spent sailing towards the Monaco Glacier, passing a number of small isletswhere eider ducks nest during the summer. If we are lucky we may spot a polar bear searching for eggs here. If the ice conditions are favourable we will sail past 80° North and towards Moffen, an island which is often host to walrus.

This is the largest fjord on the North West coast of Spitsbergen. A large side fjord called Krossfjord may also be visited during this day. The landscape varies from large tundra plains to alpine peaks, with dramatic glaciers tumbling into the ocean. At 78º 55’ N, Ny-Ålesund is the world’s northernmost year-round community. Previously a coal mining community, Ny-Ålesund is now an advanced high Arctic research station. In the age of early polar exploration Ny-Ålesund was the starting point for numerous expeditions towards the North Pole. A number of countries run their own national research stations here, and there is a lot of activity here in the summer.

Your Spitsbergen Adventure Voyage is over and it is time to say goodbye. Your dream has become reality, and you will have fantastic memories to take with you.

Please note the Itinerary is subject to change due to local conditions.