Midnight Sun Cruises & Tours
Highlights
- Witness the fabled “Land of the Midnight Sun” aboard an expedition cruise
- Experience 24 hours of sunlight on the summer solstice at and above the Arctic Circle
- Maximize your exploration of the Arctic with more daylight hours for discovery during the period of peak wildlife activity
- Midsummer’s Eve around the June solstice widely observed in Nordic countries and extra-special above the Arctic Circle
- Abundant opportunities for wildlife and landscape photography
Among the fundamentals of the Arctic environment—the extended summer daylight known as the Midnight Sun, or the Polar Day, or the White Night—is also among its biggest draws. Perhaps that close-to-24-hours’ worth of sunshine, the inevitable result of Earth’s natural tilt (or inclination) as the planet rounds our home star, doesn’t immediately seem like a reason to journey to the Far North, but experiencing it on the ground and on the water is something else.
For one thing, it translates to a luxurious abundance of sunlit sightseeing: an extra-full day’s worth of drinking in Arctic scenery, wildlife, and adventures. And the soft, warm, high-definition illumination of the prolonged low-Sun hours—the long “evening” of the Midnight Sun—casts those splendid vistas of mountains, icebergs, cliffs, headlands, and fjords in about as magical a Magic Hour as any photographer could ask for…
About Midnight Sun Cruises & Tours
Among the fundamentals of the Arctic environment—the extended summer daylight known as the Midnight Sun, or the Polar Day, or the White Night—is also among its biggest draws. Perhaps that close-to-24-hours’ worth of sunshine, the inevitable result of Earth’s natural tilt (or inclination) as the planet rounds our home star, doesn’t immediately seem like a reason to journey to the Far North, but experiencing it on the ground and on the water is something else.
For one thing, it translates to a luxurious abundance of sunlit sightseeing: an extra-full day’s worth of drinking in Arctic scenery, wildlife, and adventures. And the soft, warm, high-definition illumination of the prolonged low-Sun hours—the long “evening” of the Midnight Sun—casts those splendid vistas of mountains, icebergs, cliffs, headlands, and fjords in about as magical a Magic Hour as any photographer could ask for…