Arctic Cruise South Greenland

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We sail past Flade Isblink and keep a lookout for Humpback Whale and Minke Whale. -

Itinerary

Nuuk (Godthåb - Neu Herrenhut) the capital of Greenland has a population of about 15,000. An excursion should include a visit to the museum which has a remarkable collection of Inuit mummies, dating from the 15th Century, which were found near Uummannaq, further to the north. The Cultural Centre of Nuuk, which each year has an exhibition of the work of a Greenlandic artist, is also worth visiting. The waters to the west of the town are a good place to see Humpback Whale and Blue Whale.

We call at Lichtenfels an abandoned Herrnhuters mission post, with large cemetery from the 18th century, and Fiskenaes (formerly called Brielse Haven).

We sail past Flade Isblink and keep a lookout for Humpback Whale and Minke Whale.

In Ivittuut we walk along the remains of a Cryolite mine and around a small cemetery connected with it. In this area we see Musk Oxen, which were introduced into the area in the last century.

Today we sail to the beautiful glacier fronts of Qaleralik Sermia, where we will have some zodiac excursions and make some landings near the glacier. Deeper into Bredefjord at Qoornooq, we land in an area with beautiful remains of houses from the Thule culture.

We reach Lichtenau a lovely but nearly deserted Greenlandic village, where the Herrnhuters had a mission in the 18th Century, and where still some of their large buildings remain. We will try to get to Uunartoq, where we can bathe in a large hot spring, surrounded by icebergs. Close to it is Illorpait another abandoned Moravian Mission.

In Eriksfjord we visit the Viking sites of Gardar (a walk of 3 km from the landing site at Itilleq in the neck of the Peninsula) and Brattahlíð, where Erik Red lived about a thousand years ago. In the evening we arrive at the port of Narsarssuaq.

From Narsarssuaq we fly by scheduled plane to Kangerlussuaq and Copenhagen.

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