![]() Towering sea-cliffs crowded with millions of seabirds guard the land, while offshore lies a crazy paving of pack-ice upon which Polar Bears hunt and Walruses laze.įor our Spitsbergen voyages Naturetrek exclusively charters the 52-berth MS Quest and the 108-berth MV Ortelius to operate a dedicated wildlife cruises. Winter begins to loosen its grasp in May, however, and during the brief Arctic summer Spitsbergen is transformed into a land of perpetual daylight, covered by a flower-filled tundra grazed by herds of Reindeer. This is the true ‘High Arctic’, an extreme land gripped by ice for over eight months of the year and by darkness for over four. The island of Spitsbergen is a dramatic land of huge glaciers, snow covered mountains and steep-sided fjords, separated from the North Pole by a mere 965 kilometres of frozen ocean.
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