Oceanwide Expeditions

RVR13B North Greenland - Melville Bay 2012

RVR13B

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.  This is a village with traditional hunters on Narwals and seals, and sometimes a Polar Bear.

Day 4 – 5 - We are in an area close to the Greenland ice-cap, and  sail among  huge ice-bergs where we will have remote chances to spot Narwals and Polar Bears when we come close to the Melville Bay Nature Reserve.
We land at Lille Renland, where Reindeer have been found. Here we can walk on the Greenland ice-cap. 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. At Cape Seddon we see the remains  of  Thule culture dwellings.

Day 6 - Depending on our schedule we land in the area of Kraulshavn.

Day 7 - At Kingigtorsuaq, where 14th Century Viking Ruins were found, we will try to find the place where the Vikings built a cairn with the inscriptions. In Kinggitoq we still can see peat houses from the 19th century and good remains form the Thule culture. From there we sail to Upernavik the main town in North Greenland.

Day 8 - From Upernavik we fly to Reykjavik by chartered plane. (flight not included in the voyage cost).