The Howorths

Chinese Invest in Camper & Nicholsons International

Chinese money continues to be attracted to the world of superyachts. Little by little the Chinese yuan, also known as…

Ocean Endeavour with sea ice at anchor at Etah

The fact that we got through the NW Passage without really encountering Polar Bears let alone seeing much in the…

Maud, the third of Amudsen's ships, on a floating pontoon ready to be taken back to Norway in Cambridge Bay

She may look a wreck but Maud is an important ship and after years of rotting in an arctic backwater…

Concert in the school ashore in Uqsuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven)

As part of our onboard amusement, Ocean Endeavour is carrying some accredited and famous Inuit musicians who have entertained us…

Polar bear on sea ice

While the voyage in itself is exciting for the route it takes, the highlight as got to be finding Polar…

Watching beluga whales from Ocean Endeavour zodiac

One of our more unusual sightings was the beluga whale. We were extremely lucky one day to fall into a…

Johnny Issaluk acting as armed sentry in polar bear country ashore in Karrat fjord

No one travelling in Ocean Endeavour is in any doubt what so ever regarding the danger a Polar Bear can…

Sea ice off Beechey Island

One of the things you have to accept when sailing in an expedition vessel is that the published itinerary is…

Monument to Lt Bellot, of the French Navy who died whilst seaching for Sir John Franklin in the Wellington Channel in 1853

Beechey Island is in fact only an island when the tide is high and it becomes separated from Devon island…

Aujuittuq from aboard Ocean Endeavour

Grise Fjord is a peaceful hamlet 715 miles (1,150 kilometres) above the Arctic Circle. It is here we enter Canada…