Northeast Passage Map
On this very rare trip with Quark Expeditions we traveled from Anadyr, on Russia's Asian shore to Murmansk, near the Finnish border. Along the Northeast Passage we explored the Chukotka Peninsula, Wrangel Island, the New Siberian Islands, Severnaya Zemlya , Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land. This 26 day passage would have been very tough without the icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov and its skilled team to navigate through a very heavy ice year.
The attached map shows the Northeast Passage route in red. The routes in black are from 2005-2007 expeditions. Most recent expedition, marked in violet, is the first circumnavigation in 2008 of Spitzbergen in Svalbard by sailboat.