Baffin Island, Canada: 24-day Expedition in the Arctic

The tour I lead is an epic, sprawling, beautiful and mesmerizing 24-day expedition through one of the great untouched frontiers of the arctic, Baffin Island in Canada. This desolate, isolated island is home to some truly glorious scenery, with its vast, huge and cold canyons and valleys giving way to imposing rock walls and fjords.

Baffin Island, straddling the Arctic Circle, is the fifth-largest island in the world and is largely uninhabited. There is a wide variety of wildlife that live on and around the island, and these include polar bears, whales, seals, belugas, narwhals, walruses, arctic foxes, arctic wolves and an array of migratory birds.

We meet in Copenhagen, where we spend the night in a hotel, before going onwards to Ummannaq in Greenland, where we view the mighty Ummannaq Fjord, and then 3 days of sailing to reach Baffin Island.

Once on Baffin Island, we spend the subsequent 19 days discovering every magnificent and wonderful place it has to offer, with its monumental fjords and glaciers looking out over sweeping valleys, the horizon in the distance as far as the eye can see, all looking like a landscape and terrain from another planet!

For many the highlight of the trip is the opportunity to observe and marvel at the beautiful animals and creatures that inhabit the island, and we will ge tot witness such mesmerizing wildlife as whales that live in the many bays that dot the island, polar bears, foxes and wolves that occupy the forests and countless species of birds.

The last few days are spent sailing to Sisimuit in Greenland, before we return to Copenhagen and say goodbye, knowing that we have experience something truly unique and special.