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Arctic holidays

February 2024

  • Havila images for Kevin Rushby piece on Norway Havila aurora, Norway

    ‘It is magical to swim surrounded by the Arctic winter in all its brutal glory’: an eco cruise in Norway’s far north

    Our writer travelled on a low-emission ship to the top of Europe in winter to experience the northern lights, cross-country skiing and a freezing plunge in the sea

February 2023

  • People enjoying and photographing the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights at The Abisko Sky Station, Abisko, Lapland, Sweden. Cold temperatures as low as -47 celsius.<br>KG5JJH People enjoying and photographing the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights at The Abisko Sky Station, Abisko, Lapland, Sweden. Cold temperatures as low as -47 celsius.

    Alight here for the aurora borealis: on the Arctic Circle train to northern Sweden

    A 17-hour sleeper from Stockholm to Abisko, north of the Arctic Circle, reveals an epic landscape that is particularly beautiful during the ‘blue moment’

February 2021

  • Writer Nancy Campbell’s Greenland host, Malik, with his dogsled team

    Travel encounters
    Staying with a hunter showed me Greenland beyond the tourist brochures

    In a new series about memorable encounters, the writer recalls the time she spent with a family whose way of life is threatened by the climate crisis

January 2021

  • Moody sky with sunset over an ice and snow landscape in Finland.

    My voyage through a world of language in just one word: snow

    Missing the wild regions where I have worked, I took a linguistic trip from Asia to the Andes, via Russia and Finland, instead

May 2020

  • Matthew Henson, right, at the White House in 1954 with his wife, and President Dwight Eisenhower.

    Great explorers you’ve probably never heard of
    Matthew Henson: the pioneering African-American Arctic adventurer

    This multi-skilled explorer may well have been first to the North Pole – in 1909. What’s not in doubt is his resourcefulness and love of the Inuit

January 2019

  • Mountains reflecting on water, Lyngen Alps, Arctic Norway.

    From summit to sea: a snowboarding adventure in the Arctic Circle

    There are no lifts in Norway’s picturesque Lyngen Alps, so if you want to ride down a mountain to the shore you have to hike up it first

August 2018

  • Rowan Moore

    Will giant cruise ships destroy the wonders their passengers claim to love?

    Rowan Moore
    Guides who shot a polar bear have been denounced as murderers. But what does that make the tourists who are ruining its fragile habitat?

May 2017

  • At dusk, the sea cabin at Manshausen, Norway.

    Norway’s Arctic north: eco-cabins and sea eagles

    A new activity resort brings guests right up against the wonders of the Arctic Circle, with floor-to-ceiling views over the fjords. Peter Carty is captivated by the flora, fauna and Norse mythology

January 2017

  • Deluxe suite- Wishful Thinking Artists- Marjolein Vink & Maurizio Perron, ICEHOTEL 365, photo by - Asaf Kliger (1 of 1)

    Nights on ice in Sweden's Arctic wonderland

    The new open-all-year ice hotel is the base for exploring the dramatic, snowy beauty of the frozen north

December 2016

  • Reindeer race, Inari, Finland.

    The reindeer derby: a race across the Arctic Circle

    This week, they’re working in tandem but from November to April, the reindeer of northern Finland also compete in prepration for the world’s fastest reindeer race

November 2016

  • The Inuit settlement of Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland.

    A great little place I know
    Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland, one of the remotest settlements on Earth

    Frozen in for nine months a year and sandwiched between the largest national park and longest fjord system in the world, the setting of this tiny coastal outpost is stunning

March 2016

  • polar park wolf lookout point, Norway

    In the company of wolves: animal encounters in Narvik, Norway

    After years of persecution, wolves are howling anew across Europe – and in the north of Norway an unusual zoo park is bringing them face-to-face with their nemesis: us

January 2016

  • Leanne Shapton

    On my radar
    On my radar: Leanne Shapton’s cultural highlights

    The Canadian writer and illustrator on her love of Ellsworth Kelly, her passion for proper doughnuts, and the wonders of King William Island

November 2015

  • Looking down on the bow of a boat, lined with a few passengers looking out to sea, sailing through ice floes.

    Northwest Passage, Canada: going with the floe

    Robin McKie finds life in the high Arctic a surprisingly chilled-out experience – even when a polar bear pays a visit…

October 2015

  • The Pilgrim Springs of Nome, Alaska.

    Nome, Alaska: ‘The spring water is as hot as I can bear. The effect is miraculous’

    TV presenter and comedian Alexander Armstrong discovers the secret of staying warm in Alaska

June 2015

  • The SALT festival in Sandhornøy, Norway

    World view
    World view: art in the Arctic at the SALT festival

    Winter storms left the majestic architectural centrepiece of the SALT festival on the island of Sandhornøy, Norway, severely damaged. But after extensive rebuilding work, the experimental arts event returns in late summer with a programme of live music and visual installations that hope to provoke a dialogue with the wild environment that surrounds it

May 2015

  • polar bear canadian arctic

    Two Arctic ice researchers presumed drowned after unseasonably high temperatures

    Police have called off the search for two Dutch scientists. Unusually thin ice likely played a role in their presumed death in the Canadian Arctic this week

March 2015

  • Hms Investigator

    Boundless by Kathleen Winter review – in the footsteps of John Franklin

  • Iceberg in fjord, Greenland

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: Snowburn in the frozen fjord

February 2015

  • 'Breathtaking': Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic.

    Boundless review – Kathleen Winter’s original take on the travel memoir

    The Canadian novelist explores an epic inner and outer voyage through the Northwest Passage
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