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12 Night Discovering the Northeast Greenland National Park Cruise from Reykjavik

Ship: Le Commandant Charcot
Cruise Line: Ponant Cruises
Sailed:  Sunday, May 22, 2022 from Reykjavik, Iceland
Ended: Friday, Jun 3, 2022
The itinerary information below reflects the original day-by-day port of call schedule for the Sunday, May 22, 2022 departure of the Le Commandant Charcot. If Ponant Cruises modified this itinerary for weather or operational reasons after departing , the modified schedule would not be reflected here.
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Day by Day Summary and Map

Day 1 - Sunday - May 22, 2022
Reykjavik, Iceland
Reykjavik, Iceland     Depart: 6:00 pm
Iceland's capital stretches along the edge of a vast bay in the west of the country. Perlan, the "Pearl of Reykjavik", a museum located on Oskjuhlid hill, offers a panoramic view of the lush green landscapes. A little further, one can easily spot the signpost showing the way to the evangelical Hallgrimskirkja church, and to the historical centre where one can stroll along the Skolavordustigur and the Laugavegur, two lively streets with charming small shops. For some relaxation just outside of the city, visitors have the opportunity to visit the Reykjanes peninsula and its famous thermal lagoons of the Blue Lagoon.
Day 2 - Monday - May 23, 2022
At Sea
At Sea      
Spend exceptional moments sailing onboard Le Commandant Charcot, the world's first luxury polar exploration vessel and the first PC2-class polar cruise ship capable of sailing into the very heart of the ice, on seas and oceans that the frozen conditions render inaccessible to ordinary ships. Le Commandant Charcot is fitted with oceanographic and scientific equipment selected by a committee of experts. Take advantage of the on-board lectures and opportunities for discussion with these specialists to learn more about the poles. Participate in furthering scientific research  and let us discover together what these fascinating destinations have yet to reveal to us.
Day 3 - Tuesday - May 24, 2022
At Sea
At Sea      
Day 4 - Wednesday - May 25, 2022
Ittoqqortoormiit Region, Greenland, Denmark
Ittoqqortoormiit Region, Greenland, Denmark      
Located between the largest national park and the longest system of fjords in the world, the town of Ittoqqortoormiit, whose name means "great house" in Greenlandic, is one of the remotest inhabited places in the world. Covered with ice and snow for nine months of the year, you will be able to discover the ancestral way of life of the last hunters of the polar region. As soon as the thickness of the ice floe allows, they set out on the trail of walruses, seals, narwhals, musk ox, and polar bears, travelling by traditional dog sleds.
Day 5 - Thursday - May 26, 2022
Ittoqqortoormiit Region, Greenland, Denmark
Ittoqqortoormiit Region, Greenland, Denmark      
Day 6 - Friday - May 27, 2022
Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland, Denmark
Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland, Denmark      
In Gael Hamke Bay, you will sail towards Dodemandsbugten, or "dead man's bay", in the south of Clavering Island. This is where the last Inuit settlement of Northeast Greenland was discovered around 1823. Here, you can still find typical trapper cabins like those described by the Danish explorer and writer Jorn Riel in his stories of the Arctic, humoristic accounts drawn from the dozens of years he spent exploring the fascinating lands of what is now the Northeast Greenland National Park. Further west, you will be able to discover the vestiges of the former Eskimonaes radio and weather station, captured by German troops during World War II to achieve control of the meteorological intelligence for the region.
Day 7 - Saturday - May 28, 2022
Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland, Denmark
Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland, Denmark      
Sailing through the fascinating landscapes of the Northeast Greenland National Park, you will make your way to Danmarkshavn on the southern coast of Germania Land. Built in 1948, to this day Danmarkshavn remains a station of prime importance for determining meteorological conditions in Europe and North America. Despite the difficulty in accessing this coast often covered by ice, the spot was chosen during the wintering of the ship Danmark in 1906 as the base for an important scientific expedition through the region by dog sled. The north of this bay that is only free of ice for a very short time each year in August can only be reached by ships built to sail through ice.
Day 8 - Sunday - May 29, 2022
Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland, Denmark
Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland, Denmark      
With a craggy coastline formed by gigantic fjords, magnificent alpine mountains looming over them, the shores of north-east Greenland offer breathtaking landscapes and are home to the largest national park in the world. Covering an area of around one million square kilometers, almost half the island, the Northeast Greenland National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, is a particularly isolated region. Cut off for many months of the year by the ice floe, it is renowned for its pristine nature and rich wildlife.
Day 9 - Monday - May 30, 2022
Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland, Denmark
Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland, Denmark      
In the Northeast Greenland National Park, we are humbled by the changing and extreme ice conditions in this site where we are privileged guests. We will try to go as far north as possible to land on the coast of the famous Ile-de-France, a mythical site of French polar expeditions discovered on 28 July 1905 during a polar exploration campaign led by Prince Philippe, Duke of Orleans (1869-1926). A little-known polar explorer, in 1905, 1907, and 1909 Prince Philippe organized three Arctic expeditions aboard La Belgica, led by Captain Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery and his crew, thus entering the closed circle of the heroes of the Far North. During the 1905 expedition that led him to Spitsbergen in Greenland, he was accompanied by his friend the doctor Joseph Recamier and by the nature artist Edouard Merite.
Day 10 - Tuesday - May 31, 2022
Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland, Denmark
Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland, Denmark      
To the south of the Northeast Greenland National Park, near the Hold with Hope Peninsula, in the King Christian X Land region, you will visit Myggbukta, a former Norwegian whaling, meteorological, and radio station established in 1922 by Johan A. Olsen. It was he who gave this site its name meaning "mosquito bay" in Norwegian. This large bay situated at more than 73 latitude north is covered in superb arctic tundra extending as far as the eye can see. This rich vegetation cover allows a large population of musk oxen to thrive. If you are lucky, you may get to spot a few.
Day 11 - Wednesday - Jun 1, 2022
At Sea
At Sea      
Spend exceptional moments sailing onboard Le Commandant Charcot, the world's first luxury polar exploration vessel and the first PC2-class polar cruise ship capable of sailing into the very heart of the ice, on seas and oceans that the frozen conditions render inaccessible to ordinary ships. Le Commandant Charcot is fitted with oceanographic and scientific equipment selected by a committee of experts. Take advantage of the on-board lectures and opportunities for discussion with these specialists to learn more about the poles. Participate in furthering scientific research  and let us discover together what these fascinating destinations have yet to reveal to us.
Day 12 - Thursday - Jun 2, 2022
At Sea
At Sea      
Day 13 - Friday - Jun 3, 2022
Reykjavik, Iceland
Reykjavik, Iceland      
Iceland's capital stretches along the edge of a vast bay in the west of the country. Perlan, the "Pearl of Reykjavik", a museum located on Oskjuhlid hill, offers a panoramic view of the lush green landscapes. A little further, one can easily spot the signpost showing the way to the evangelical Hallgrimskirkja church, and to the historical centre where one can stroll along the Skolavordustigur and the Laugavegur, two lively streets with charming small shops. For some relaxation just outside of the city, visitors have the opportunity to visit the Reykjanes peninsula and its famous thermal lagoons of the Blue Lagoon.