On a small ship Arctic cruise, you'll experience a magical land of icy fjords, jagged mountains, & immense glaciers. Comfortable small ships glide travellers beyond the Arctic Circle through dramatic ice floes to walk in the footsteps of the Vikings or marvel at the breaching of a humpback whale. Hull-hardened ships cut through the polar ice to access areas previously visited by only the most adventurous explorers and even to the North Pole. A cruise of the Arctic offers rare wildlife, natural beauty and unique cultures that have survived in one of the most extreme environments on Earth. Choose from cruises that visit the Arctic landscapes of Northern Canada's Baffin Island, the Northern Passage, Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, Canada, Norway, & Russia.

Antarctica -- a k a "The White Continent" -- may very well be the last frontier for cruise travellers. Don't get us wrong -- it's a big destination, but we mean that in the most literal sense, with hundreds of thousands of penguins and icebergs that dwarf even the largest of mega-ships. Still, fewer than 20,000 cruise passengers make it onto Antarctica annually, and it's often a once-in-a-lifetime notch in a cruiser's belt.