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Wildlife Viewing with Arctic Watch for the Active Traveler

Published on February 11, 2019

By Daven Hafey, Quark Expeditions Wildlife guide and documentary producer Daven Hafey has a passion for all things related to wildlife, weather, tides and Indigenous culture. He has guided on more than 40 polar expeditions, in the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Alaska and the Antarctic.    The Arctic. Just speaking the name evokes a wide array […]

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A Safari North of the Arctic Circle

Published on September 5, 2018

By John Newton, AFAR Ambassador   Travelers with Quark Expeditions photographing belugas in Cunningham Inlet on Somerset Island Every year, thousands of travelers head to Africa in the hope of seeing the famous “Big Five” animals—lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and Cape buffalo—during a stay at one of the continent’s safari camps. Far fewer, only a […]

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My Week as an Arctic Explorer

Published on December 22, 2014

by Kelley Ferro Rarely do you set out on a trip and truly feel like an explorer, but I felt like a modern day Magellan when I embarked on my Polar Bear Adventure in Manitoba. This aptly named small group journey with Tauck was indeed the quintessential adventure. Our frontier was Churchill and our prize was […]

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