Spitsbergen Adventure Cruise

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Five days of adventure, with a visit to Longyearbyen and a voyage on the MS Nordstjernen along the North-West coast of Spitsbergen with its beautiful fjords surrounded by jagged peaks and huge glaciers.

Spitsbergen is the largest island in the Svalbard Archipelago. Thanks to the Gulf Stream, the west coast, some 400 kilometres long, is surprisingly rich in wildlife and in places you'll see some quite luxuriant vegetation, with tiny beautiful flowers growing amongst the rocks. Historical monuments are found all along the coast and give testimony to a heroic polar history. The Dutch explorer, Willem Barents first saw this coastline in 1596, and the impressive peaks inspired the name Spitsbergen.

The MS Nordstjernen cruises northbound from Longyearbyen to Moffen Island and during your stay on board you'll experience the stark beauty of the Svalbard landscape and hopefully see some Arctic mammals like whales and the king of the Arctic - the polar bear.

During the voyage our guides will host some informal lectures to complement our shore visits, most of which will be by Zodiac and we aim to make one landing per day. You'll also spend some time in Longyearbyen where you'll learn about the history of the area and life here today.

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Itinerary Weekly Tuesday Departures
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DAY 1	Fly to Oslo where you will stay overnight at an airport hotel.
DAY 2	Fly from Oslo to Longyearbyen where you are transferred to the Spitsbergen Hotel for an overnight stay. After an information meeting in the afternoon you will have some free time before dinner.
DAY 3	You have the option to take part in a guided walk to the Plateau Mountain in the morning, before lunch is served at the hotel. A sightseeing tour will introduce you to Longyearbyen with stops at the Svalbard Museum and the Svalbard Gallery. The tour ends at the pier where you embark the MS Nordstjernen, your home for the next three days. We set sail in the early evening and arrive at the Russian settlement of Barentsburg a couple of hours later. There will be a short sightseeing tour and optional visits to the Pomor Museum and a Folklore show. Later that evening we sail out of the Icefjord, along the coast of Prins Karls Forland and past the Kongsfjord heading north.
DAY 4	We will pass "the seven icebergs" early in the morning before reaching the northwest corner of Spitsbergen and arrive at Magdalenefjord. We continue further north during the afternoon and make several landings and a stop at Raudfjord.
DAY 5	Our schedule today is largely dependent on the wind, weather and ice conditions. We plan to sail into the Woodfjord area and to visit the front of the Monaco glacier in the Liefdefjord. We'll also hope to cross the 80° parallel and sail up to Moffen Island. During the night we sail southbound again.
DAY 6	We'll arrive at Ny-Ålesund in the morning where we will learrn about the history of coalmining and exploration during a guided tour. There's some free time before departure at midday when we cross the Kongsfjord to Blomstrand. During the afternoon we'll continue soutbound along the coast of Prins Karls Forland and back to the Icefjord.
DAY 7	The ship arrives at Longyearbyen early in the morning and you are transferred to the airport for the flight to Oslo. From Oslo you continue back to the UK.
The itinerary and excursions for the Spitsbergen cruise are preliminary and subject to change depending on ice and weather conditions.