Cruise Plus & Scenic Eclipse Brochure 2023-2024

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Top Highlights of TheArcticRegion

Wildlife Kingdom Across the Arctic, be spellbound by polar bears, from the sheer numbers on Wrangel Island to frequent encounters on Franz Josef Land, Svalbard and the Canadian Arctic. Revel in steaming walrus haulouts, soaring sea cliffs raucous with charming puffins, guillemots, kittiwakes, little auks and more. Search for mystical narwhals and shy beluga whales, musk oxen, Arctic foxes and hares.

In the Footsteps Be intrigued by Discovery historians as they reveal Greenland’s ancient Inuit hunting camps, Canada’s Hudson Bay trading posts and hear epic tales of Arctic explorers striving for the North Pole by ship, dogsled and balloon. Follow the tribulations of Franklin’s expedition, cheer Amundsen’s successful Northwest Passage and be inspired by Nordenskjold’s push across the Northeast Passage. Spectacular Ice Gaze from your private verandah as Scenic Eclipse enters pack ice to reveal a world alive with polar bears, seals, whales and more. Thrill to the gunshot retort of calving icebergs along Spitsbergen’s vast ice-fronts, and the ‘iceberg factory’ of Disko Bay. Zodiacs move amidst stupendous aquamarine towers and fantastic arches of Scoresbysund’s sculpture garden of ice. People of the North Be welcomed by local communities, from Chukchi reindeer herders in Russia’s Far East to Inuit hunters and fishermen across the High Arctic. Meet scientists and rangers working from remote polar stations. Be entertained by traditional song and dance in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and be enthralled as your Discovery guides enlighten you on the skills necessary to live at the end of the Earth.

Hidden Gems Be entranced by the beauty and incredible diversity of tundra wildflowers onWrangel Island, home to the greatest density of polar bear dens on Earth. Be awestruck by walls of polished rock soaring kilometres above you in the fjords of East Greenland. Feed your inner explorer along the remote coastline of Baffin Island or amidst the seldom visited Russian archipelagos of Franz Josef Land,Novaya and Severnaya Zemlya.