Polar expedition cruise specialist Quark Expeditions has unveiled its Arctic 26 season, called Ice, Fire and The Eclipse.
This new season, celebrating 35 years of historic exploration in the Arctic, builds upon Quark’s legacy of innovation and pioneering firsts to offer Quark Expeditions most diverse range of Arctic itineraries to date.
Including a variety of options for exploration in Svalbard, Greenland, Iceland, and the Canadian Arctic, all offered aboard its two state-of-the-art vessels: Ultramarine and Ocean Explorer.
Among them are two exclusive new voyages: Iceland Circumnavigation: Helicopters, Glaciers and Volcanoes and Iceland to Greenland: A Total Solar Eclipse – from soaring above Iceland’s volcanic wonders in a twin-engine helicopter, to kayaking beneath the towering bird cliffs of Alkefjellet in Svalbard, to witnessing a celestial spectacle from the remote High Arctic.
Quark Expeditions, the leader in polar adventures, made history 20 years ago as the first operator to bring passengers to Antarctica to witness a total solar eclipse, providing 100 explorers from 17 countries the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view this celestial event from the seventh continent. In the Arctic 26 season, Quark Expeditions returns to its umbraphile roots with the remarkable Iceland to Greenland: Total Solar Eclipse voyage aboard the state-of-the-art Ultramarine.
This exclusive 13-day journey, departing Reykjavik on August 6th, 2026, will transport guests to East Greenland’s High Arctic at the optimal point of totality, where travellers will view the longest duration of the solar eclipse in the world—2 minutes and 17.2 seconds.
