Cruise met Seabourn Venture vanuit Nome – 34 nachten

Sisimiut is Greenland’s second-largest town, and large by Greenland standards, housing some 6,000 people. It is located just north of the Arctic Circle, and is a popular base for visitors seeking adventurous pastimes in the surrounding country. Although there are no shore excursions planned for Sisimiut, guests may wish to investigate the local market, where the products of the country are sold, including meat from whales, reindeer, musk oxen and many kinds of fish. Watch for the stocky little Icelandic horses trotting along the highways, and keep an eye out for sea eagles often seen perched on the surrounding mountains. Whales are also often seen in the sea nearby. On the hill above the harbor, there is an artisan’s workshop where they create and sell Inuit crafts, and nearby is the town museum, which has examples of colonial period houses, peat houses and other early buildings.

Located in Disco Bay, Ilulissat is home to Sermeq Kujalleq, the fastest-moving glacier in the world. This tremendous river of ice flows from the Greenland Ice Shield toward the sea, funneling through a narrow opening at nearly 40 meters a day. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is the “Mother of Icebergs” that fills its fjord and the bay with great quantities of floating icebergs that parade down the bay and into the Atlantic Ocean. No formal excursions are planned for the town, which is home to about 4,600 people and some 3,500 sled dogs.

In October, 1941 the United States Army Air Force constructed an airbase at the site of Kangerlussuaq. It served as a refuelling stop for single-engine military aircraft being flown to Britain during World War II. Form their last port of call, Goose Bay, Labrador, it was 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to Kangerlussuaq until they could refuel. Kangerlussuaq fjord (‘Big Fjord’), is 170 kilometers (105 miles) long and was often shrouded in fog, providing a serious navigation problem for those aircrews. Today, with the use of modern technology, navigation is no longer an issue. The landscape was ideal for the site of an airport. A large alluvial plain, deposited by the nearby glacial-outflow river, provided a perfectly flat environment for an airport. Kangerlussuaq is the largest commercial airport in Greenland and supports a population of 500. A little known fact, from 1971 to 1987, 33 missiles from various countries, were fired from Kangerlussuaq for upper atmospheric scientific research.

Lady Franklin Island, is an uninhabited Baffin Island offshore island located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Davis Strait, 25 mi from Hall Peninsula. There are at least seven smaller, unnamed islands off its northwest shore.

Lady Franklin Island, is an uninhabited Baffin Island offshore island located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Davis Strait, 25 mi from Hall Peninsula. There are at least seven smaller, unnamed islands off its northwest shore.

Montserrat is a mountainous Caribbean island, part of the Lesser Antilles chain and a British Overseas Territory. Its Soufrière Hills volcano erupted in the 1990s, causing significant damage to the south of the island and leading to the creation of an exclusion zone. The north of the island is largely unaffected, and has black-sand beaches, coral reefs, cliffs and shoreline caves.

Located at the most northerly tip of Newfoundland, L‘Anse aux Meadows is nestled near the fishing village of St. Anthony. It is the site of the first European settlement in the New World, approximately 500 years before Columbus‘ arrival. Other Norse groups had relocated from their homelands to the New World. In 1961, explorer and writer Helge Instad discovered a group of large mounds in the countryside. These mounds were excavated revealing the remains of a Norse settlement. This site became L‘Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park in 1977 and is noted on the UNESCO World Heritage List of important cultural properties. The site at L‘Anse aux Meadows has been completely excavated allowing visitors to see the remains of the homes, a smithy, and various worksheds. The park‘s interpretive center displays Norse artifacts from the excavation which include iron rivets, a flywheel and the floorboard of a boat. Researchers still debate as to whether the site at L‘Anse aux Meadows is Leif Eriksson‘s ‘Vinland,‘ a lush, beautiful area where he settled in for the winter around the year 1000. Parks Canada will greet you on disembarking the ship and you may explore at leisure this first settlement of the New World.

“St. John‘s is de grootste stad en hoofdstad van Newfoundland en Labrador in Canada. St. John‘s werd in 1888 opgenomen als een stad, maar wordt door sommigen beschouwd als een van de oudste Engels gestichte steden op het continent. Het is gelegen op het eiland Newfoundland op de oostelijke punt van het schiereiland Avalon. National Geographic Magazine heeft het geclassificeerd als een van de tien beste bestemmingen aan de oceaan ter wereld. De naam wordt toegeschreven aan de feestdag van Johannes de Doper toen men dacht dat John Cabot in 1497 in de haven stopte. Het is een goede vakantiebestemming die een bezoek waard is. Hieronder staan ​​enkele van de aanbevolen ervaringen, activiteiten en functies die bezoekers die naar St. John‘s, Newfoundland varen, zullen genieten: Mensen die van kunst en cultuur houden, zouden de binnenstad zeker moeten bezoeken. Het is het culturele centrum van de stad en trekt veel toeristen naar de regio. Het heeft veel etablissementen zoals de kamers die zeker een bezoek waard zijn. Kunstliefhebbers moeten een tussenstop maken in het Arts and Culture Centre. Het centrum herbergt een kunstgalerie, een theater met 1000 zitplaatsen en bibliotheken. De plaats is vermakelijk en informatief. Een reis naar het etablissement biedt de kans om meer te leren over kunst en ook om enkele van de entertainmentproducties te zien. Het Johnson Geo Center is een geologisch interpretatiecentrum, gelegen op Signal Hill. Het centrum is een goede plek om te bezoeken voor mensen die meer willen weten over de geschiedenis van de aarde door de complexe en unieke geologische geschiedenis van de regio. Een goede plek om tijd door te brengen en te ontspannen is het Pippy Park. Het is een van de grootste stadsparken in Canada. Het park heeft een breed scala aan recreatieve voorzieningen, waaronder twee golfbanen, ski- en wandelpaden en een beschermd leefgebied voor dieren en planten.”