What’s so cool: The elusive route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Canadian High Arctic defeated explorers for centuries, but modern-day ships can probe this polar wilderness, sailing across the Davis Strait and around Baffin Island be
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En route you can spot walrus, beluga, narwhal and polar bear, but this is as much a homage to past explorers as a wildlife odyssey.
Going ashore at Beechey Island, you will find four simple graves from the ill-fated 1845 Franklin expedition and subsequent search party, and follow in the footsteps of Roald Amundsen, who landed there in 1903 at the start of the first successful voyage through the Northwest Passage.
North or South: A typical two-week Northwest Passage cruise through the Canadian High Arctic starts in Kangerlussuaq on the West Greenland coast (served by flights from Copenhagen) and ends in Cambridge Bay, from where you can fly to Edmonton.
Just as cool: A voyage from the southernmost tip of South America to Antarctica involves crossing the infamous Drake Passage, a 1,000km stretch of water connecting the Pacific and Atlantic and known as either ‘Drake Lake’ or ‘Drake Shake’, depending on conditions.
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