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Discover Northeast Passage & Franz Josef Scenic? 33 B Polar bear, Novaya Zemlya Explore choices of videos A Nordbruck Island, Franz Josef Land archipelago with Scenic Eclipse C Watruses, Wrangell Island, Alaska scenic.com.au/view/eclipse Island. In the Medvezie (Bear) Islands, enjoy great kayaking or stand-up paddleboarding near flocks of long-tailed ducks and bearded and ringed seals. Keen hikers may walk to the imposing rock spires of Chetyryokhstolbovy Island or Zodiac cruise below sea cliffs where thousands of kittiwakes nest. Bennett Island, largest of the De Long Islands was claimed for the United States by the ill-fated Jeanette Expedition in 1881, aclaim not recognised today. Admire tundra vegetation like saxifrages, buttercups, chickweeds and mountain sorrel in the Novosibirskie Islands, discover large walrus haulouts on Belkovsky Island. Have your in-suite binoculars on hand while crossing the Kara Sea. Nearby Nordenskjold Archipelago is named for Adolf Erik Nordenskjold, leader of the 1878-80 Vega Expedition, the first to navigate the Northeast Passage. The islands are popular with Arctic terns, purple sandpipers, herring gulls, sanderlings and other waders. Explore Isachenko Island in the Kirov Island group. In Severnaya Zemlya, ‘Northern Lands’, explore the last territorial discovery on Earth, with walks up to glaciers, Zodiac cruising, stand-up paddleboarding and kayaking in iceberg-laden fjords, and sightings of Brant geese, snow buntings and Arctic skuas, always with an eye out for polar bears. At Novaya Zemlya, largest of the Eurasian Arctic archipelagos, admire its glistening ice cap, massive walrus haulouts, bird cliffs bristling with Brunnich’s guillemots, kittiwakes and glaucous gulls. Zodiac cruise for views of calving glacier fronts, bearded seals and polar bears, or hike to spectacular vistas. Explore Franz Josef Land, the world’s most northernmost and most extraordinary archipelago. Home to five million seabirds, polar bears and walrus, it’s also been the staging post for polar explorations. Delight in your Discovery Team historians as they recount the epic tales from Nansen, Amundsen, Wellman, Ziegler, Tegetthoff and others who strived to find a way to the North Pole or across the Northeast Passage. Cruise the soaring bird cliffs of Rubini Rock and land at Cape Trieste to admire perfectly round geodes, rocks ranging from 1 cm to 3 m in diameter. As you disembark from Scenic Eclipse be proud that you are now a member of a very exclusive group who have successfully completed a crossing of the Northeast Passage. INSTORE | ONLINE | CALL | APP
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