Expedition Cruise Diary

Svalbard Northern Region
PROFILE
Dynjandi
Latrabjarg Cliffs
Reykjavik
Cruise Along
Hornbjarg Cliffs
Vigur Island
Cruise Surtsey
Akureyri
St Kilda
Iona
Jan Mayen
Vestmannaey Island
Fort William
Tromsø
SECTOR 9
Svalbard Southern Region
Cruise Bear Island
Skarsvåg
Gverstappen
Islands
Cruising Along
North Cape
SECTOR 10
LISBON TO REYKJAVIK
18 days | June 16-July 3
Voyage though Iberia, France,
the UK and Iceland
REYKJAVIK TO TROMSO
14 days | July 3-16
Voyage through Iceland,
Svalbard and Norway
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ATLANTIC OCEAN
Pembroke
Tresco
St Mary's
St Peter Port
La Coruña
Oporto (Leixões)
Lisbon
Portimao
Sevilla
London
Honfleur
Saint Malo
Cagliari
Bejaia
EUROPE
Sousse
Porto Empedocle
PIRAEUS (ATHENS) TO LISBON AFRICA
Nafpaktos Itea
Ksamil Athens (Piraeus)
Trapani
Monemvasia
Folegandros
15 days | June 2-16
Voyage through the Mediterranean
Naxos
Symi
Rhodes
SECTOR 8
Suez Canal Transit
Luxor (Safaga)
SECTOR 7
Muscat
Sur
Salalah
Cochin
INDIAN OCEAN
Colombo
Mormugao
SINGAPORE TO COCHIN
17 days | April 28-May 14
Voyage through Indonesia
and the Indian Ocean
COCHIN TO PIRAEUS (ATHENS)
20 days | May
ASIA14-June 2
Voyage though the Middle East,
Suez Canal and Greece
Galle
Belawan
Bawemataluwo
Padang
Anak Krakatoa
Ujung Kulon
National Park
SECTOR 6
Anano
Island
Garove Island
Singapore Bau-Bau
Palopo, Pulau Tellang
Sulawesi
Rabaul
Madang
Samarang (Java)
Hunter River Region
Buccaneer
Archipelago
Region
SECTOR 5
CAIRNS TO SINGAPORE
23 days | April 6-28
Voyage through the
Kimberley and Indonesia
Kupang
Broome
Kalabahi
Thursday
Island
Darwin
Cairns
King George
River Region
AUSTRALIA
Santa
Ana
Tami Islands
Samarai
and Kwato
Champagne
Beach
Fergusson Island
Dobu Island
Nendo Island
Pentecost
Island
Lautoka
LAUTOKA TO CAIRNS
15 days | March 23-April 6
Voyage through Vanuatu, the Solomon
Islands and Papua New Guinea
SECTOR 3
Palmerston
Island
Somosono (Taveuni)
Apia
Aitutaki
Rarotonga
SECTOR 4
PAPEETE TO LAUTOKA
13 days | March 11-23
Voyage through the Cook
Islands, Samoa and Fiji
Moorea
Bora Bora
Rangiroa
Atuona
Fakarava
Papeete
Fatu Hiva
PACIFIC OCEAN
Adamstown
SECTOR 2
NORTH AMERICA
Easter Island
VALPARAISO TO PAPEETE
23 days | Feb 17 to March 11
Voyage through Chile and
French Polynesia
Alexander Selkirk Island
Robinson Crusoe Island
Puerto Montt
Castro
Tortel
Cruise English Narrows
Niebla
Cruise Chilean Fjords
Valparaiso
Ushuaia
USHUAIA TO VALPARAISO
19 days | Jan 30-Feb 17
Voyage to Antarctica and
through the Chilean fjords
SECTOR 1
Antarctic Peninsula
South Shetland Islands
Antarctic Sound
SILVERSEA’S UNCHARTED WORLD TOUR IN NUMBERS
167
THE LENGTH
OF THE CRUISE
IN DAYS
30
THE NUMBER
OF COUNTRIES
VISITED
107
THE NUMBER
OF PORT CALLS
10
THE NUMBER
OF SHORTER
SECTORS
INTRODUCING
THE ARCTIC
IT IS…
…an area enclosed by a notional circle with the
North Pole at its centre that crosses seven
countries (Norway, Greenland, Russia, Canada,
Alaska, Finland, Sweden) and passes through
the Icelandic Island of Grimsby.
…the place to cruise the Northwest Passage,
the Arctic route between North America and
Greenland discovered in 1906 by Norwegian
explorer Roald Amundsen.
…an average 3-12˚C in summer, falling to an
average -34˚C in winter.
…home to about four million people.
…the place to spot polar bears. It’s also home to millions of
seabirds, Arctic foxes and Svalbard Reindeer and walruses.
…home to four species of whales and six species
of seals.
…blanketed by so much ice that if it were all to melt the sea
levels would rise 23.6 feet.
SILVERSEA IN THE ARCTIC
SILVER CLOUD
Guest capacity: 240
Crew capacity: 212
Last refurbishment: 2017
Expedition team members: Up to 28
Number of Zodiacs: 18
Kayak programme:
Yes
SILVER EXPLORER
Guest capacity: 144
Crew capacity: 118
Last refurbishment: 2017
Expedition team members: 12
Number of Zodiacs: 12
Kayak programme:
No
THE FIRST EVER
EXPEDITION WORLD CRUISE
A world cruise is always an adventure
but imagine how amazing it would be
to find one that veers away from the
path well trod and instead calls into
spectacular places where very few
people ever set foot.
Impossible? Not for Silversea
Expeditions, which has launched the
first-ever expedition world cruise.
The 167-day Uncharted World Tour,
on Silversea’s expedition ship Silver
Cloud, sets sail on January 30 2021,
and will take guests on a spectacular
journey from Ushuaia in Argentina
to Tromso in Norway by way of
Antarctica, the Chilean fjords, the
South Pacific, Papua New Guinea,
Indonesia, the Mediterranean and
Norwegian fjords. Ten shorter sectors are planned
to go on sale nearer to the departure date.
The list of calls en route reads like a who’s who
of expedition favourites, but with more than a few
exciting-sounding places that most people will
likely never even have heard of.
Weather permitting there’ll be a landing in
the South Shetland Islands, a day to explore
Chile’s colourful island capital of Castro, and an
overnight stay in remote Easter Island, to see the
extraordinary monumental statues carved more
than 700 years ago by the Rapa Nui people.
Guests will be island-hopping through Vanuatu
and the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, visit
volcanic Rabaul in Papua New Guinea and seek out
saltwater crocodiles as they cruise the Kimberley
in Australia. They’ll see orang-utans in the wild in
Indonesia, glaciers and polar bears in Svalbard and
a myriad of seabirds in Norway’s Gjesvaerstappan
Islands.
They’ll be accompanied along the way by a
brilliant line-up of guest speakers who are experts
in everything from anthropology and archaeology
to geology, garden design and history. They include
Jo Ruxton, who produced the documentary A
Plastic Ocean, Egyptologist Chris Naunton, and
explorer Felicity Aton, the first and only woman to
ski across Antarctica alone.
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