Cruise Canada’s Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage has long been the quest of explorers and the search for a northern route from the Atlantic to the Pacific has claimed many lives. Ice bound and treacherous the sea has been rarely navigable, but recent global warming has changed that and whilst the full crossing is still not straightforward it is now practical for adventurous tourists to venture into the Northwest Passage in the comfort of a cruise ship.

Flying north from Montréal guests join the ship at Resolute Bay in the High Arctic for an eight night cruise through the Canadian Arctic archipelago, stopping at historic sites along the way, including Beechey Island, where British Explorer Sir John Franklin was trapped, ice-bound, for two years and Gjoa Haven, named after the boat of famous adventurer Roald Amundsen, who was the first person to traverse the Passage and to reach both the North and South poles.

Home to whales, walrus and polar bears the region is rich in wildlife. A visit to Cambridge Bay could include a sighting of some of the 30,000 muskox that inhabit Southern Victoria Island and Prince Leopold Island is an important Migratory Bird Sanctuary whose spectacular cliffs are home to thousands of murres, fulmars and kittiwakes.

It is a land where nature is still in charge and itineraries are reliant on conditions, but with its expert team of crew, guides and naturalists this Northwest Passage cruise can justifiably be called a trip of a lifetime.

Frontier Canada is offering this eight night round-trip cruise from Resolute, with flights from London to Montréal and on to Resolute and return, including two nights in the Montréal from £8,980 p.p. this August, if booked before the end of February.

For more information and bookings, log on to Frontier-canada.co.uk.