16-Day Exploring The Torngat Mountain Cruise

Day 0 - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Arrive: Wed 14 June 2028

St. John's is the most easterly point in North America and closest point of land to Europe. Due to it strategic location, St. John's has been vitally important for centuries to explorers, adventurers, merchants, soldiers, pirates, and all manner of seafarers, who provided the foundation for this thriving modern day city. Explore this, one of the oldest cities in North America, and a city unlike any other. This "City of Legends" is cradled in a harbor carved from granite, and surrounded by hills running down to the ocean. Quaint side streets of a thousand colors are home to friendly faces that wait to greet you.

Day 1 - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

Depart: Thu 15 June 2028 at 21:00

St. John's is the most easterly point in North America and closest point of land to Europe. Due to it strategic location, St. John's has been vitally important for centuries to explorers, adventurers, merchants, soldiers, pirates, and all manner of seafarers, who provided the foundation for this thriving modern day city. Explore this, one of the oldest cities in North America, and a city unlike any other. This "City of Legends" is cradled in a harbor carved from granite, and surrounded by hills running down to the ocean. Quaint side streets of a thousand colors are home to friendly faces that wait to greet you.

Day 2 - At Sea

Day 3 - Red Bay, Labrador

Arrive: Sat 17 June 2028 at 07:00 / Depart: Sat 17 June 2028 at 17:00

Red Bay is a National Historic Site of Canada, and has been nominated by Canada for inclusion as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. One of the reasons is the importance of the Basque whaling activity that thrived here in the 16th and early 17th centuries. Sunken Basque galleons and smaller boats from the period have been discovered just offshore. Although the whale population is much diminished today, it is still a popular activity to watch them, as well as the icebergs that float down from the seas further north.

Day 4 - Battle Harbour, Canada

Arrive: Sun 18 June 2028 at 07:00 / Depart: Sun 18 June 2028 at 17:00

Day 5 - Indian Harbour, NL, Canada

Day 6 - Nain, Canada

Arrive: Tue 20 June 2028 at 07:00 / Depart: Tue 20 June 2028 at 16:00

Day 7 - Saglek Fjord, Labrador, Canada

Day 8 - Eclipse Channel, Labrador, Canada

Day 9 - Resolution Island, Nunavut, Canada

Day 9 - Lower Savage Islands, Canada

Arrive: Fri 23 June 2028 at 13:00 / Depart: Fri 23 June 2028 at 18:00

Day 10 - Monumental Island

Arrive: Sat 24 June 2028 at 07:00 / Depart: Sat 24 June 2028 at 12:00

In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin, on the period’s most technologically advanced expedition, vanished in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. Monumental Island was named by fellow Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall in memory of Franklin. Located in Davis Strait south of Baffin Island, it is known as Oomienwa in the local Inuktitut language. This barren, rocky and windswept island is home to a variety of wildlife. Nesting black guillemots are the most prolific seabird. The Island is a favorite resting spot for walrus and they may be viewed at numerous haul-outs around the island. The elusive polar bears patrol the ice-floes in search of seals while whales feed offshore. This is also an excellent location for viewing elaborately sculpted icebergs of all sizes and shapes. Numerous glaciers descend from the island’s high peaks, their crevasses appearing almost to glow an iridescent blue against a landscape of stark white

Day 10 - Nunavut Canada

Arrive: Sat 24 June 2028 at 13:00 / Depart: Sat 24 June 2028 at 18:00

Lady Franklin Island, is an uninhabited Baffin Island offshore island located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Davis Strait, 25 mi from Hall Peninsula. There are at least seven smaller, unnamed islands off its northwest shore.

Day 11 - At Sea

Day 12 - Isabella Bay (Ninginganiq), Nunavut, Canada

Day 13 - Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut, Canada

Day 14 - At Sea

Day 15 - Sisimiut, Greenland

Arrive: Thu 29 June 2028 at 07:00 / Depart: Thu 29 June 2028 at 17:00

Sisimiut is Greenland’s second-largest town, and large by Greenland standards, housing some 6,000 people. It is located just north of the Arctic Circle, and is a popular base for visitors seeking adventurous pastimes in the surrounding country. Although there are no shore excursions planned for Sisimiut, guests may wish to investigate the local market, where the products of the country are sold, including meat from whales, reindeer, musk oxen and many kinds of fish. Watch for the stocky little Icelandic horses trotting along the highways, and keep an eye out for sea eagles often seen perched on the surrounding mountains. Whales are also often seen in the sea nearby. On the hill above the harbor, there is an artisan’s workshop where they create and sell Inuit crafts, and nearby is the town museum, which has examples of colonial period houses, peat houses and other early buildings.

Day 16 - Kangerlussuaq

Arrive: Fri 30 June 2028 at 07:00 / Depart: Fri 30 June 2028

In October, 1941 the United States Army Air Force constructed an airbase at the site of Kangerlussuaq. It served as a refuelling stop for single-engine military aircraft being flown to Britain during World War II. Form their last port of call, Goose Bay, Labrador, it was 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to Kangerlussuaq until they could refuel. Kangerlussuaq fjord (‘Big Fjord’), is 170 kilometers (105 miles) long and was often shrouded in fog, providing a serious navigation problem for those aircrews. Today, with the use of modern technology, navigation is no longer an issue. The landscape was ideal for the site of an airport. A large alluvial plain, deposited by the nearby glacial-outflow river, provided a perfectly flat environment for an airport. Kangerlussuaq is the largest commercial airport in Greenland and supports a population of 500. A little known fact, from 1971 to 1987, 33 missiles from various countries, were fired from Kangerlussuaq for upper atmospheric scientific research.