The team of five women who run the museum at the former Grytviken whaling station on South Georgia during the current Antarctic season were looking forward to the many visitors at the start of the season. Photo: South Georgia Heritage Trust After the last two...
Polar expedition voyages aim to give guests the feeling of being able to follow in the footsteps of polar explorers and discoverers. Feeling like Amundsen, Shackleton or Nansen when you enter a place for the first time is certainly one of the elations you feel. On the...
High mountain flanks with snow flanks ending in craggy peaks, clear lakes and streams tumbling down the same mountain slopes as thundering waterfalls, deep fjords with numerous icebergs floating in them and lots of green and lush tundra, this is the landscape of South...
The South of Greenland is visited by cruise ships from time to time. But most of them just sail through the picturesque Prins Christian Sound and stop at some ruins from the Viking Age. The small villages that lie in the fjords and along the coasts are rarely visited,...
Helicopters are an important means of transportation in Greenland. This is because many of the settlements and communities cannot build landing strips for airplanes. But there is usually always room for a helipad. And the two Airbus aircraft we have on board have...