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Purveyors of Exceptional Experiences in the Arctic

26/05/2025

The sails are up. The course is set.

We are The Great Expedition Company.

And this is not a cruise.
It’s an invitation.

Twelve guests. One vessel.
A season of Arctic expeditions — from Svalbard to the Shetlands.

📍2025 Expedition Season Now Open

Request your place at sea.

21/05/2025

Not every journey is about noise.
Some are about the hush that follows.
About waking where no one else is, save for wind, salt, and sky.

This is why we sail. To find places where silence still has a voice.

The Faroe Islands.
Remote. Rugged. Reverent.

Follow us for more from the edge of the map...and slightly beyond.

17/05/2025

Field Notes | Northbound Approach
Lat 70-something. Definitely in the Arctic. Visibility good.

From the aircraft window, the coastline began to take shape.
Harsh. White. Serrated.
The Arctic doesn’t introduce itself.
It appears, slowly. In pieces.

Icebergs were first.
Pale markings on the sea. Then mass. Then movement.
We adjusted course to slip between them.

Midday: a solitary bear, resting on a ridge of blue ice.
Later, the same bear — or maybe a different one — entered the water.
It moved with the kind of grace you don’t expect from something so large.
Not a splash.

There are no fences here. No certainty.
Only proximity, if you’ve earned it.
Only moments, if you’re paying attention.

This is The Great Expedition Company.
Twelve guests. One vessel.
The 2025 expedition season begins this July.
To the edge of the map, and slightly beyond.

11/05/2025

Not a crowd. A crew.

At Great Exped, every voyage is limited to just twelve guests.
Why? Because intimacy matters...with the landscape, with the ship, and with each other.

Smaller groups mean more meaningful moments.
More flexibility. More connection.
It’s not about luxury. It’s about depth.

You won’t be lost in the crowd...because there isn’t one.
Just a crew of fellow explorers, and a journey where everyone is part of the story.

Twelve guests. One vessel.
This is not a cruise. It’s how we believe the Arctic should be experienced.

09/05/2025

Twelve guests. One boat. Zero lounge singers...unless you count the occasional sea shanty from our Expedition Leader .

This is the Arctic...raw, real, and shared with a small crew that feels like family by day three.

You can hoist the sails if you like. Or just watch the glaciers drift by with a hot mug in hand.

We keep it small on purpose. Not just for the ice — but for the kind of moments that don’t happen in crowds.

This is not a cruise. It’s an expedition.

2025 departures are comping up soon.🧭

06/09/2023

What is a Great Expedition? A Great Expedition is one which transforms a “once in a lifetime” experience into the “start of a lifetime” of experience. A Great Expedition creates and pass on a sense of humility through our shared experiences.

A Great Expedition is also one which is predicated on travelling intentionally and rests on locating our shared experience in a base of knowledge: we think you should know something about where you are headed.

The best way to learn about what a Great Expedition is really all about or join us, of course!

10/02/2023

A porthole to a different world.

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