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26 Scenic® | Discover Scenic Eclipse Greenland & Canadian High Arctic Enter a world of breathtaking grandeur, where smooth rock walls rise two kilometers to monolithic spires, colossal glaciers calve aquamarine icebergs 100 metres high, vast tundra feeds musk oxen and reindeer, and waterways abound with whales and seals. Greenland, the world’s largest island, is draped in the planet’s second largest ice sheet and cut by the greatest fjords on Earth. From Northeast Greenland National Park (the world’s largest) situated south along the east coast, fjord systems wind up to 350 magical, often ice-laden kilometres from the coast. There are over 35,000 islands in this remote Canadian Arctic Archipelago, with Baffin Island being the fifth-largest island in the world. Baffin Island, offers incredible scenery; mountains, fjords, glaciers and pack ice. Making up a wilderness area that provides home for rare wildlife including: muskox, walrus, beluga whales and the polar bear. Scenic Eclipse, The World’s First Discovery Yachts are designed and built to Polar Class 6 standards, making it easy to explore these remote regions. Operating in places other ships can’t reach, like Kaiser Franz Josef Fjord early in the season. This red-rock wonderland of wind and wave sculpted icebergs, is a secret passage to Kong Oskar FLIGHT CENTRE Fjord, where your expert Discovery Team will lead walks across blossoming tundra to encounter musk oxen families and pure white Arctic hare. Learn what life was like for nomadic Paleo Eskimos, who inhabited the region for more than 4,000 years. Visit Inuit hunting camps abandoned two centuries ago, so well- preserved that circular stone tent rings, winter houses, bear-proof meat caches and grave sites can still be seen. Discover the riveting exploration history of the land that never melts as you explore the Canadian Arctic, home to a wealth of wildlife and rugged, pristine landscapes. Listen as your Discovery Team historian regales you with tales of polar exploration, from Fridtjof Nansen and Otto Sverdrup’s ski crossing of the Greenland Ice Sheet in 1888, to their drift across the Arctic Ocean on board the specially designed Fram. Sverdrup’s Fram ll scientific expedition, which spent four years exploring north Greenland, is an epic tale. INSTORE | ONLINE | CALL | APP
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