Arctic Icebreaker Cruises & Expeditions
Highlights
- Sail aboard cruise ships specially designed to shove and break through the sea ice
- Access some of the most remote Arctic destinations, including the icebound North Pole
- Relax safe in the knowledge the reinforced, and ice-strengthened hull of your vessel can withstand the toughest of polar ice packs
- Marvel the inner workings of a nuclear-powered, Arktika-class icebreaker, one of the greatest engineering feats of the nautical world
- Luxury icebreaker voyages are available aboard Le Commandant Charcot
The specialized hull-strengthened ships called icebreakers lead cruisegoers into the thickest pack ice to access farflung Arctic destinations—not least the North Pole. Some magnificently heavy-duty Russian icebreakers help lead the class, including the celebrated nuclear-powered Yama and 50 Let Pobedy (aka 50 Years of Victory) vessels that have historically made many sightseeing voyages to the Pole. Another option—and our option of choice—is the very first hybrid-electric luxury icebreaker cruise ship to reach the North Pole: Le Commandant Charcot.
Besides the North Pole—one of the more rarefied of global travel destinations—Arctic icebreaker cruises also travel through the challenging straits and channels of the legendary Northwest Passage, knitting together the Atlantic and Pacific basins via Greenland and the spectacular Canadian Arctic Archipelago. (Some of these very same icebreakers spend the other half of the year on the other side of the world, down in Antarctica!)
About Arctic Icebreaker Cruises & Expeditions
The specialized hull-strengthened ships called icebreakers lead cruisegoers into the thickest pack ice to access farflung Arctic destinations—not least the North Pole. Some magnificently heavy-duty Russian icebreakers help lead the class, including the celebrated nuclear-powered Yama and 50 Let Pobedy (aka 50 Years of Victory) vessels that have historically made many sightseeing voyages to the Pole. Another option—and our option of choice—is the very first hybrid-electric luxury icebreaker cruise ship to reach the North Pole: Le Commandant Charcot.
Besides the North Pole—one of the more rarefied of global travel destinations—Arctic icebreaker cruises also travel through the challenging straits and channels of the legendary Northwest Passage, knitting together the Atlantic and Pacific basins via Greenland and the spectacular Canadian Arctic Archipelago. (Some of these very same icebreakers spend the other half of the year on the other side of the world, down in Antarctica!)