Oceanwide Expeditions

RVR13A North Greenland - Cape York 2012

RVR13A  * (Departure is currently under charter or sold out.)

Day 1 - We arrive in Upernavik from Reykjavik by chartered plane. (flight not included in the voyage cost). Upernavik (1500 inhabitants) is the main town in North Greenland, where the people still live from hunting seals.

Day 2 - We will go ashore on Kipak, and Kap Shackleton on Agparsuit which still have huge colonies of Brünnich’s Guillemots.

Day 3 - At the southern end of Melville Bugt we land at Kuvdlorssuaq the northernmost settlement of the Upernavik district.

Day 4 - We land at Lille Renland, where Reindeer have been found. Here we can walk on the Greenland ice-cap. In this area we may encounter our first sea ice and, if so, there is a chance of spotting Polar Bears hunting seals at the ice edge. Later we land at Red Head. The coast here is dominated by the vast Greenland ice cap which reaches the sea as a series of enormous glacier fronts, the largest outside Antarctica.
An alternative landing place is  Cape Seddon near the remains of a Thule culture village.

Day 5 - Today we sail to the western side of Melville Bugt, and then continue into Meteor Bugt  On Meteor Island we land at Savigsivik, the southernmost Thule settlement. It was on this island that the famous York meteorite provided the Inuit with a source of iron . Peary removed part of it and sold it to an American museum. As we sail close to the edge of a nature reserve we have some chances to see Narwals along the ice edge.

Day 6 -We reach Cape York where, in 1818, the Inuit and White Men first met when Royal Navy ships under John Ross arrived. Today the small settlements on the eastern side of the Cape are deserted, though the mountains behind the shore are still home to thousands of Little Auks.

Day 7 - We sail the whole day southeast through the immense Melville Bugt, admiring again the awesome Greenland ice cap to the east.

Day 8 - Depending on our schedule we land in the area of Kraulshavn.

Day 9 - From Upernavik we fly to Reykjavik by chartered plane. (flight not included in the voyage cost).