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HX announces 2025-2026 expedition cruise season line-up
Expedition cruise operator HX (Hurtigruten Expeditions) unveiled its 2025-2026 season, adding a raft of new ports, landings, and itineraries.
The season will showcase over 80 itineraries across five continents.
As well as Alaska, Antarctica, Greenland and the Northwest passage, HX will offer more warm waters expedition cruises following its inaugural season in West Africa (launching November 2023).
The programme includes the largest ever offering in Greenland with the addition of a fourth vessel, MS Spitsbergen.
It is launching four itineraries, including three ‘Grand Greenland’ voyages that start and end in Nuuk: Icy Giants of Disko Bay, Mythical Lands of the North and Farthest North to Thule and Kane Basin.
HX will offer two new itineraries in Iceland: Iconic Iceland – The Maritime Ring (onboard MS Maud) and Elemental Iceland – Circular Saga (onboard both MS Fridtjof Nansen and MS Maud).
All three departures will leave from Reykjavik, where HX became the first cruise company to connect to shoreside electricity in Iceland.
In 2025, HX will introduce four new Arctic Canada sailings, all originating from or concluding at the new port in Nuuk, Greenland.
These voyages will encompass two Northwest Passage crossings,
Guests can choose between the iconic east-to-west route, pioneered by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, and the new west-to-east sailing onboard MS Roald Amundsen from Alaska to Greenland.
There will be 50 Antarctic expeditions facilitated by the addition of a fourth ship, MS Maud, in the 2023-2024 season.
The new Svalbard in Spring – Return of the Sun itinerary includes areas seldom explored and include glacial hikes and kayaking safaris.
HX will also return to West Africa, where it will be the only cruise line to exclusively sail the archipelagos of both Cape Verde and the Bissagos Islands.
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