Wonders of the Arctic

SEP. 23 – OCT. 10, 2024 ticket

From $11,990

Activity Level: Moderate Activity diploma

UCLA Faculty on Tour

Overview

Reykjavik, Kangerlussuaq, Qeqertasuaq, llulissat, Sisimiut, Nuuk, Iqaluit, Lady Franklin Island, Torngat Mountain National Park, Hebron, L’ Anse aux Meadows, Gros Morne National Park, Halifax

Vega

The largest island in the world, stretching from the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean, Greenland invites discovery. While communities existed on this vast island as early as 4,500 years ago, it was the Norsemen who settled Greenland’s southwest shores in the 10th-century, followed by the Inuit, who migrated from Alaska in the 13th-century, making up the majority of the island’s population today. Traditional ways of life can still be seen in hamlets and villages against a backdrop of stunning Arctic scenery.

On this voyage, the new-generation expedition cruise ship Vega, which accommodates only 152 guests, will navigate through Greenland’s magnificent fjords from which float incredible icebergs, and then cross the Davis Strait to land on Canada’s Arctic Baffin Island, continuing along the coast of Labrador to St. John’s, on the Island of Newfoundland. Throughout the voyage we will explore coastal villages and the countryside, discover UNESCO-listed World Heritage sites and Viking ruins, meet with local Inuit communities, and look for the wildlife.

Cost: From $11,990
Thalassa Journeys

Activity Level: Moderate Activity

Book this Tour

STEP 1
Download the tour Reservation Form here. This tour is booked quickly, so sign up early to reserve space.

STEP 2
Enclose a check or provide credit card information for $1,500 per person, per tour, as a deposit for the selected tour. Make check payable to Thalassa Journeys

STEP 3
Fax 310-209-4271, email travel@alumni.ucla.edu, or mail to:
Thalassa Journeys
8815 Conroy-Windermere Road, Suite 406
Orlando, FL 32835

UCLA Faculty on Tour

Professor Jared Diamond
Department of Geography divider

Jared Diamond is a Pulitzer-prize-winning author of six best-selling books, translated into 38 languages, about human societies and human evolution: Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, Why Is Sex Fun?, The Third Chimpanzee, The World until Yesterday, and Upheaval. As a professor of geography at UCLA, he is known for his breadth of interests, which involves conducting research and teaching in three other fields: the biology of New Guinea birds, digestive physiology, and conservation biology. His prizes and honors include the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Science, and election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is a director of World Wildlife Fund/U.S. and of Conservation International. As a biological explorer, his most widely publicized finding was his rediscovery, at the top of New Guinea’s remote Foja Mountains, of the long-lost Golden-fronted Bowerbird, previously known only from four specimens found in a Paris feather shop in 1895.

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