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KARSTEN BIDSTRUP


NORTHWEST PASSAGE



NORTHWEST PASSAGE



Sailing through the Northwest Passage on board the world's first hybrid electric expedition cruise ship, MS Roald Amundsen.



Pond Inlet



An inuit with former times cool and (often) necessary sunglasses made of leather and whale bone.



Gjøa Haven



Two degrees Celcius and a freezing wind from the north doesn't invite to a game of basketball.



Dundas Harbor



Polar bears can be spotted all over the landscape, even up high in the terrain.



Beechey Island



An armed polar bear guard moves into position during a landing in the wilderness.



Beaufort Sea



Photographing northern lights from a moving ship is a challenge. The sea must be dead calm, as it happened to be this night.



Pasley Bay



With its remarkable bow profile MS Roald Amundsen certainly stands out passing through the Northwest Passage.



Beechey Island



Over the years the Northwest Passage has claimed its share of deaths amongst entrepid explorers.



Beaufort Sea



The nightshift on the bridge is on the lookout for icebergs.
High above the ship mother nature shows off.



Peel Sound



For anyone trying to sail through yhe Northwest Passage, the real challenge has always been the ice. The future may look different.



Gjøa Haven



Life is rough in the remote settlements in northern Canada.



Smoking Hills



The underground has been burning for centuries in Smoking Hills.



Ulukhaktok



Center of town.



King Point



The remains of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's hut at King Point where he spent the winter 1905-06.



Pasley Bay



Before the storm.



Smoking Hills



MS Roald Amundsen's experienced kayak instructor, Thomas Grant Olsen, in the Northwest Passage.



Northwest passage in black & white





Rough, barren and deserted - northern Canada is truly cool...



MS roald amundsen



MS Roald Amundsen is the world's first hybrid electric expedition cruise ship.
The ship is named after the famous Norwegian explorer who led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in 1903-06.
However, Amundsen is probably even more famous for beating Scott in the South Pole race in 1911.



Village elders from ulukhaktok


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Photographer Karsten Bidstrup


DANISH travel journalist of the year 2018



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