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Northwest Passage: Epic High Arctic -- Canada's High Arctic and Western Greenland 2022

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In September 2022, I will travel with Quark Expeditions to Canada's high arctic and the west coast of Greenland.  The trip is called:   Northwest Passage: Epic High Arctic.    This is my 5th polar trip, 4th in the Arctic.  'Polar Fever' enveloped me in August 2016 when I traveled to Eastern Greenland with Natural Habitat Adventures.  Their Greenland Base Camp experience  captured my spirit and my mind. In  January 2017, I traveled to the Falklands, South Georgia, Antarctica (Peninsula). August/September 2017, returned to Greenland, sailing from northern Iceland to southern Greenland to Iqualilut, Nunavit, Canada kayaking in myriad Greenland fjords.  August/September 2018  to Svalbard and on to Franz   Josef Land in the Russian Arctic Marine Reserve.   2019 was a change of pace raveling to Central China to see Giant Pandas. Covid then interrupted polar travel for 2020 and 2021. Restarting in 2022  -- Arctic in 2022 and Antarctica - Ross Sea in 2023. “POLAR FEVER” ...  a stat
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The Arctic, Country by Country Laura Neilson Bonikowsky October 4, 2012

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The Arctic, country by country Laura Neilson Bonikowsky  |  October 4, 2012 Our eight-country primer takes you to each of the council’s member states and offers a breakdown of their Arctic territory, interests and claims. By Laura Neilson Bonikowsky   Quttinirpaaq National Park on Canada’s Ellesmere Island CANADA Area: 9,984,670 sq km Population: 34,476,688 (2012) Canada’s frigid Arctic is definitely something to get hot and bothered about. It makes up more than 40 percent of the country’s land mass; is home to 100,000 Canadians, 80 percent of whom are indigenous peoples; and the Arctic coastline comprises nearly 75 percent of Canada’s total 243,000 kilometre shoreline, including the shores of some 36,000 islands. Canada’s closest point to the North Pole is Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island, 769 kilometres from the pole. So closely is Canada aligned with the image of snow and ice in the global perspective that we could consider the Arctic landscape as the representative face of Canada. T
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