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Where the road ends, the cruise begins.
Arctic vessels, naturalist crews, and Zodiac landings on coastlines without a single footprint, from short west-coast runs to ocean crossings, six to nineteen days.
Available cruises
Choose how far you go
Short Voyage + Town
6 days, Sat to Thu. A pre-cruise Longyearbyen stay with a guided town tour, then a west-coast voyage by expedition vessel under the midnight sun. Zodiacs ashore daily.
North Coast Explorer
8 days from Longyearbyen to the northern fjords and the sea-ice edge by expedition vessel under the midnight sun. Glacier fronts, drift ice, and daily Zodiac landings.
Full Circumnavigation
10 days, a complete loop around the Svalbard archipelago by expedition vessel under the midnight sun. Pack-ice edge, the remote east coast, and daily Zodiac landings.
The coastline
A skyline you only reach from the water
Svalbard's coast runs for hundreds of kilometres of glacier fronts and snow-streaked peaks, with no road to any of it. From the deck the archipelago opens up one fjord at a time.
Book your Cruise now!Why sail it
Most of Svalbard has no roads. A ship is how you reach it.
From Longyearbyen you can drive a snowmobile or take a boat for the day, but the coastlines that make Svalbard what it is, the glacier fronts, the remote east, the edge of the sea ice, sit days beyond the last track. A small expedition ship is the only way to stand in front of them.
It is also where the wildlife is. Polar bear odds are highest at the pack-ice edge, exactly where the vessel works its way north among the floes. Walrus haul-outs, seabird cliffs and whales line a route that no land trip can follow.
Each morning a fleet of Zodiacs runs you ashore on beaches without a footprint, with a naturalist crew who read the ice, the weather and the animals as the day unfolds. The ship is your basecamp: you wake up somewhere new, unpack once, and have meals, lectures and a physician on board the whole way.
One honest caveat: a voyage follows ice and weather, not a fixed map. The captain and expedition leader decide the route day by day, and wildlife is never promised. That uncertainty is the point, it is what a real expedition is.