Greenland Charter Itinerary

Greenland Itinerary

Greenland Yacht Charter
Greenland is the largest island in the world and about eighty percent ice cap, with a population of fifty-six thousand living almost entirely along the coast. There are practically no roads between towns. Everything moves by boat, sled or air.





The west coast in summer is the accessible face: fjords full of ice, midnight sun, Inuit settlements painted in the colours that once denoted a building’s purpose, and at Ilulissat a glacier that discharges more ice than any other outside Antarctica ’ the berg that sank the Titanic almost certainly came from it.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read Greenland; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Kangerlussuaq

A long fjord at the head of which sits an old American airbase and Greenland’s main runway. The tundra behind holds muskoxen ’ shaggy, prehistoric, and considerably faster than they appear ’ and caribou. The ice cap is a short drive inland, and standing at its edge conveys the scale better than any statistic.
Day 2

Itilleq

Itilleq sits almost exactly on the Arctic Circle: a hundred people, a football pitch on the rock, and a life still organised around hunting and fishing. There is no harbour. You come ashore by tender, and the village comes down to meet you. Hike the hills behind for the view over a coastline that has no roads at all.
Day 3

Sisimiut

Greenland’s second town, five thousand people, and the northern end of the Arctic Circle Trail. Painted houses stacked on the rock, kayak racks along the shore ’ the kayak was invented here ’ and sled dogs staked out in their hundreds, working animals rather than pets. The museum handles four thousand years of settlement well.
Day 4

Kangaatsiaq & Disko Bay

North to Kangaatsiaq, a small fishing town in a maze of islands and skerries, and then out into southern Disko Bay. The first big icebergs appear here ’ grounded in shallow water, sculpted, blue where they have rolled. They are silent until they are not. The yacht keeps its distance.
Day 5

Ilulissat

The Ilulissat icefjord is UNESCO listed and produces around forty cubic kilometres of ice a year from the fastest-moving glacier in the world. Walk the boardwalk to the fjord mouth, where bergs the size of buildings ground on the moraine and pile up. The visitor centre is excellent. A flight over it, if you can, explains everything.
Day 6

Eqip Sermia

Eqip Sermia is a tidewater glacier with a face two hundred metres high and a habit of calving without warning. Anchor at a safe distance and wait: a crack, a pause, then a tower of ice falling into the fjord and the wave rolling out. Kayak among the brash afterwards, when the water settles. Hike the moraine.
Day 7

Disko Island & Qeqertarsuaq

Disko is volcanic, basalt-columned, and geologically young in a country of ancient rock. Qeqertarsuaq was a whaling station and keeps the history in its museum and its graveyard. Hot springs, hanging valleys, and whales in the bay. A last dinner with the sun refusing, all night, to go below the horizon.

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