Skjoldungen Island Greenland
Greenland

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Frequently Asked Questions

Neither. Skjoldungen is an uninhabited island off Greenland's southeast coast: no pier, no village, no road, no shops. The whole call takes place from the ship and the Zodiacs.
A long horseshoe corridor of dark water that wraps around the island between sheer walls. Snow-covered peaks rise straight out of the sea, cut by waterfalls and ice tongues. On calm days the reflections create symmetries photographers watch for from the deck.
A river of ice descending from the interior ice cap to the sea, at the head of the fjord's northern arm. Its fractured face occasionally drops blocks with a rumble that rolls a long time between the walls.
It depends on sea and ice conditions. Expedition teams run Zodiac cruises at the glacier front or landings on the shore, with guided walks on the tundra. Nothing is guaranteed in advance.
Tundra where dwarf birch, Arctic willow and tiny flowers cling between the rocks. The Dronning Marie valley, alongside the Thrym Glacier, unfolds a U-shaped glacial landscape of striking regularity.
Yes. Nomadic Inuit groups used these shores for millennia, and archaeologists still find faint traces of former dwellings. In the 20th century a small community settled briefly before being relocated.
About fifty kilometres long, separated from the mainland by the fjord of the same name, which Greenlanders call Saqqisikuik.
No timed programme, no monuments to tick off: the weather decides and the ice disposes. Passengers spend long hours on deck, binoculars up, watching for a whale blow or a sea eagle.
No, there is nothing to buy. No shops, no services, no facilities at all. Everything is prepared on board.
For those who come for landscape and silence rather than sightseeing. It offers nothing to bring home but images: the blue wall of the Thrym, peaks doubled by their reflection, low tundra under the wind.