Explore Northwest Passage Journeys

Kugluktuk (Coppermine) is the westernmost community in Nunavut, where the Coppermine River meets the open sea. Its Inuinnaqtun name means “place of moving waters,” a fitting destination for a voyage defined by flow and connection. 


Ikirahaq, known to many as Bellot Strait is a narrow channel where the tides of east and west converge. Threading between Somerset Island and the Boothia Peninsula, it marks the northernmost tip of continental North America. 

Beechey island sits within an Arctic homeland known and travelled by Inuit long before European explorers arrived. In the nineteenth century, it became an important site in the European search for the Northwest Passage. Sir John Franklin’s expedition overwintered here in 1845–46, and Thomas Morgan of HMS Investigator was later buried nearby. Today, Beechey island offers a tangible connection to one chapter in a much longer human history of the region.

The Sisimiut coast reveals Greenland’s west in all its complexity: a weave of islands, fjords, and communities framed by mountain silhouettes. Zodiacs trace the shoreline; hikers climb for sweeping views. The air smells of salt and tundra moss, and the sea carries a low, constant murmur. 

At Ilulissat Icefjord, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the world distills to ice and light. The vast Sermeq Kujalleq glacier sends its creations into Disko Bay, where they drift, groan, and fracture. Ilulissat means “iceberg,” and here the name feels earned. 

Kangerlussuaq is where the vast fjord stretches nearly two hundred kilometres inland. Here, the ice cap appears and vanishes at the horizon. Occasional glimpses of white above the fjord, close enough to feel its breath but never in full view.