Cruising the Northeast Passage 

If you want to take a voyage across Russia’s arctic coastline aboard a polar-class icebreaker, you have to sail with Quark Expeditions. They are the only game in town. Their 2008 Northeast Passage cruise will commemorate the International Polar Year, marking the 130th anniversary of the first successful transit of the Northeast Passage, the northern shipping route from Europe to Asia. It departs June 28. Travelers will be flown from Anchorage, Alaska to Anadyr, Russia, where they will embark the Kapitan Khlebnikov. En route to Murmansk, the disembarkation point, shore landings are planned for the Chukotka Peninsula, Wrangel Island, the New Siberian Islands, Severnaya Zemlya, Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land. Travelers will then fly from Murmansk to Helsinki, then on to their home countries. 

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