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Travel Information for Arctic
Cruises Operated by Oceanwide Expeditions
How to get there?
Longyearbyen is the starting point for the voyages to the North
and Around Spitsbergen.To get to Longyearbyen you will have to fly
via Oslo and Tromso.
Keflavik, adjacent to Reykjavik airport in Iceland, is the starting
point for the voyages to Greenland.
Longyearbyen;
starting point in Spitsbergen
Longyearbyen, the administrative centre of Spitsbergen, is the starting
point for your expedition voyage in Spitsbergen. Longyearbyen and
the Russian community of Barentsburg are the main settlements on
Spitsbergen but most of the island’s 62,000 sq km are unspoilt
and incredibly beautiful.
Outside of the settlements,
there are no roads on Spitsbergen, so this world of natural wonders
is most easily and safely explored on an expedition cruise, using
Zodiacs for shore landings.
In Longyearbyen the midnight
sun begins in the second half of April and lasts until almost the
end of August, whilst in contrast the arctic night lasts from 28
October to 2 February.
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