This is your chance to travel to the top of the world aboard the world's newest, largest, and most sophisticated icebreaker - 50 Years of Victory. Watching Victory break through the formidable pack ice is a sight you'll never forget. 50 Years of Victory can sail in conditions that would defeat most other ships. It's awe-inspiring. As you travel north, take one of the included helicopter flights for a fascinating aerial view of the icebreaker's progress towards your ultimate destination, the North Pole!
Itinerary: Day 1 Overnight Helsinki, Finland Day 2 Embarkation Day 3 - 7 Northbound Day 8 North Pole Days 9 - 10 Southbound Days 11 - 12 Franz Josef Land Days 13 - 14 Barents Sea Day 15 Overnight Helsinki Day 16 Helsinki
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Weather, ice or other conditions may require that changes be made to our itinerary and shore excursions.The third departure is 17-days in length to enable a viewing of a total solar eclipse.Shipboard Accommodation: The newest addition to our polar fleet is the largest, most sophisticated, and powerful icebreaker ever constructed. Twenty years in the making, 50 Years of Victory is the first Arktika-class icebreaker to have a spoon-shaped bow. Boosting efficiency is the all-new digital automated control system. The ship, designed with a stainless steel ice belt hull 5 meters (18 feet) wide, breaks through ice up to 2.5 meters (9.2 feet) thick. It is driven by 2 nuclear reactors that produce 75,000 horsepower. In open water, top speed can be as much as 21.4 knots.
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