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Arctic Express Canada ARCTIC EXPRESS CANADA The Heart of the Northwest Passage ARCTIC 2021 | INAUGURAL SEASON Contents Overview Itinerary Arrival and Departure Details Your Ship Included Activities Adventure Options Dates & Rates Inclusions & Exclusions Your Expedition Team Meals on Board Possible Excursions Packing Checklist Overview Arctic Express Canada: The Heart of the Northwest Passage The quest for trade routes to the Far East inspired much of the age of exploration EXPEDITION IN BRIEF of North America, with the promise of the Northwest Passage its elusive jewel. Explore the highlights of Lancaster Sound On Arctic Express Canada, discover the great sea route at the top of the world— Search for iconic Arctic wildlife, such that obsessed explorers for centuries—on our game-changing new expedition as polar bears and muskoxen ship Ultramarine, which allows you a journey no traditional vessel could oer: Experience incredible ightseeing and immersing yourself in the full Arctic experience while getting back home a week heli-landings aboard Ultramarine’s two helicopters and a half later. Cruise in a Zodiac to get up close to Nature and wildlife are the guides on this voyage as you explore the region’s glaciers, ords, icebergs and more diverse treasures. The Arctic’s stark beauty oers an unforgettable backdrop, while Visit Inuit communities and learn about Quark Expeditions’ world-class team provides the knowledge and insight to help their traditions and customs you connect with the region’s unique history and geography. Ultramarine’s two twin-engine helicopters, -quick-launching Zodiacs and unprecedented mix of on-ship amenities and o-ship adventure options will deliver an unrivalled Arctic experience no one else can. Itinerary DAY | ARRIVE IN DAYS TO | EXPLORING Axel Heiberg Island TORONTO, CANADA CANADA’S HIGH ARCTIC Ellesmere Your Arctic expedition begins in Winding your way around the remote Island Toronto. Explore this vibrant city on islands of the Canadian High Arctic your own before spending the night at aboard Ultramarine, the newest ship in your well-appointed hotel. our eet, you’ll navigate the same icy Devon Island inlets, channels and bays that fascinated Resolute Croker Bayy DAY | FLY TO Beechey Islandld BanBan Bay legendary explorers of long ago as they RESOLUTE AND EMBARK Port LeopoldLeopoLe poldpo searched for the fabled Northwest ArcArcticticicccB BayBayy This morning, board your charter ight BelBellotlootot StStraitraiit Passage, the great sea route at the top to Resolute, Nuvanut. Upon arrival, you BanBan IIslandsland of the world. Designed to give polar may have a chance to check out some of adventurers unprecedented access to the the town’s sites before being transferred hardest-to-reach places on the planet— NUNAVUNUNAVUTT to your ship via Zodiac or helicopter ((Canada)Canada) and equipped with two onboard twin- (depending on ship location and weather Approximate limit engine helicopters for unparalleled access of exploration area conditions). to areas only Quark Expeditions can bring you—this one-of-a-kind ship, in its ARCTIC EXPRESS CANADA inaugural year, will take you beyond the The Heart of the Northwest Passage Onboard the Ultramarine Flights between Toronto and Resolute familiar in polar exploration. Throughout And thanks to our onboard helicopters, Nunavut is an Inuktitut word meaning your journey, your Expedition Team will you’ll also discover the ultimate polar “our land” and the Nunavummiut (the work hard to give you a taste of the best expedition experience: as stunning as people of Nunavut) are renowned the Arctic has to offer, immersing you polar landscapes are from your ship, for their incredible resourcefulness, in the heart of the Northwest Passage in they’re even more striking from the hospitality, good humor, and a deep under a week. air! Conditions permitting, you’ll enjoy knowledge of the land and animals that ultra-immersive activities like flightseeing has allowed them to thrive in the far Remember that no two polar voyages (short sightseeing flights around your north for millennia. are alike, since each expedition presents ship and surrounding areas) and heli- new opportunities and different weather Remote and rich in history, the Canadian landings (flying to places we could not and ice conditions. While this voyage High Arctic is as awe inspiring as it is otherwise access for shore excursions), has no fixed itinerary, our objective is to informative. Your days spent exploring two breathtaking options that are visit as many of the incredible highlights this mysterious region will have you unique to Ultramarine and give you an the season has to offer, using the traveling back in time to the Age of exhilarating polar experience opportunities provided by the weather Exploration. While following in the like no other. and ice to give you the best experience. footsteps of famous explorers like Sir Each day, your highly skilled Expedition While this waterway is known to John Franklin and Roald Amundsen, Team will read the conditions and choose European cultures as the Northwest you’ll navigate the waters and visit the the best course to set, but despite their Passage, this area has nurtured and historic sites in the area around Lancaster extensive expertise in these areas, each sustained the Inuit and their predecessors Sound that were key to the discovery of visit brings something new to discover. who have called these shores home for the Northwest Passage. You’ll also learn That said, our expeditions will have almost 5,000 years. Moving through these about the scientific, cultural, geopolitical some elements in common, including remote landscapes you will be traveling and environmental aspects of the route daily Zodiac cruising, land excursions, a through the ancestral homelands of this from our world-class experts, guides and robust education program, a community ancient culture, illuminated in person the local communities. Reaching remote visit and wildlife viewing opportunities. by Inuit guides onboard and ashore. lands that have lured adventurers for 3 centuries and few have ever set foot on various High Arctic birds such as snow At the western end of Devon Island, will be an experience you’ll never forget. geese, thick-billed murres (Brünnich’s windswept Beechey Island might be guillemots) and kittiwakes. Occupied by small, but it’s steeped in history, as its Wildlife sightings are almost guaranteed, Inuit nomads for almost 5,000 years, this flat beach and safe anchorage made a as many of the areas we hope to explore community is also an ideal spot to go suitable stopover for Arctic expeditions. are home to a surprising number of ashore and learn more about the Inuit You’ll want to pay your respects to the birds and mammals that thrive in this culture, sampling the local cuisine and ill-fated Franklin expedition of 1845–46 challenging environment. You’ll likely mingling with artists, perhaps picking at the small marked graves of three crew see polar bears, muskoxen and several up carvings or other handicrafts as a members on the island, one of Canada’s bird species, such as gyrfalcons and memento of your polar adventure. most significant Arctic sites. This is also dovekies (little auks). If you’re lucky, where Norwegian Roald Amundsen you may even spot the elusive narwhal Devon Island is another possible locale stopped to pay his own respects to his or a bowhead whale, though sightings for wildlife encounters, as walrus, polar childhood hero, Franklin, during his of these iconic creatures in the wild are bears and muskoxen inhabit the area, 1903–06 voyage, which became the rare, even in places where we have the which is also the location of the remains first successful transit of the Northwest greatest chances of encountering them. of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Passage in history. outpost, established at Dundas Harbour Coburg Island, for instance, is a wildlife in 1924 to curb foreign whaling and other History buffs will be further intrigued reserve for such birds as snowy owls and activities. Nearby is a small cemetery, by the chance to explore an abandoned peregrine falcons, while the impressive one of Canada’s most northerly, still Hudson’s Bay Company trading post vertical cliffs of Prince Leopold Island maintained by the RCMP to this day. at Fort Ross, at the southern end of are dotted with nesting seabirds like Another exciting excursion your Somerset Island. northern fulmars and black guillemots. Expedition Team might offer, conditions The sheltered shores and steep cliffs of Nearby Fort Ross is the Bellot Strait. One permitting, is the opportunity to fly up Arctic Bay, a hamlet located in Admiralty of the goals of this expedition is to transit to explore the Devon ice cap, one of the Inlet, provide an ideal nesting habitat for this famous channel, one of the most largest in the Canadian Arctic. 4 narrow and challenging of the passage. If There is no shortage of natural beauty, we’re successful, at the midpoint you’ll sail wildlife and history in Canada’s High IMPORTANT REMINDER past Zenith Point, the northernmost point Arctic. Each day, you’ll discover Embracing the unexpected is part of continental North America. Named for something new and inspiring, whether of the legacy—and excitement—of Frenchman Joseph Bellot, one of several it is admiration of the tundra flora to expedition travel. When traveling explorers who set out in the 1850s to survive the rugged environment, a rare in extremely remote regions, your search for Franklin’s doomed expedition, bird species soaring overhead, a polar Expedition Team must consider the the strait separates Somerset Island from bear on the hunt in its natural habitat, or sea, ice and weather to guide the route the Boothia Peninsula on mainland the remains of a century-old hut. and itinerary details. This itinerary is Canada.
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