Cruises visiting Sailing along Bjornoya (Bear Island)
Halfway between Norway and Spitsbergen, you will sail not far from the coastlines of Bjørnøya, the southernmost island of Svalbard. From your ship, observe this isolated piece of land discovered in 1596 by the Dutch navigator Willem Barents, then looking for the Northwest Passage. Following a tough fight between a polar bear and the members of the expedition, he dubbed the place Bear Island. Regularly covered by a thick layer of fog, Bjørnøya shelters a meteorological station built in 1923, which is still in operation. Declared a nature reserve in 2002, the island is above all home to an enormous colony of sea birds: skuas, guillemots, puffins, Tridactyl gulls, petrels, gulls and little auks all coexist here.
From
Glasgow, Scotland
To
Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen
13 nightsaboard the shipLE LYRIAL
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From
Tromso
To
Narvik
8 nightsaboard the shipLE COMMANDANT CHARCOT
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From
Tromso
To
Tromso
10 nightsaboard the shipLE COMMANDANT CHARCOT
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