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MODERN EXPLORERS: The godmothers of battery hybrid-powered MS Fridtjof Nansen are the first women team to ever overwinter in remote Arctic Svalbard. Photo: Hearts in the Ice.

Hurtigruten Expeditions reveals two godmothers for battery hybrid powered MS Fridtjof Nansen

Hurtigruten Expeditions has appointed two seasoned exploration and environmental pioneers as godmothers of battery-hybrid powered MS Fridtjof Nansen: Canadian Sunniva Sørby and Norwegian Hilde Fålun Strøm.

EXPLORING RUSSIA: MS Spitsbergen will embark on White Sea expedition cruises from 2022. Photo: Karsten Bidstrup/Hurtigruten Expeditions

Hurtigruten Expeditions adds Russia as its latest cruise destination

The world leader in exploration travel will launch expedition cruises to Russia’s White Sea – combined with exploration of Murmansk, the UNESCO-listed Solovetsky Islands, and Norway’s North Cape

BATTERY-HYBRID POWERED: MS Otto Sverdrup offers year-round expedition cruises along the spectacular Norwegian coastline, and is Hurtigruten Expeditions' third battery-hybrid powered ship. Photo: AGURTXANE CONCELLON/Hurtigruten Expeditions

Hurtigruten Expeditions adds third battery hybrid powered ship as expedition cruising resumes

Hurtigruten Expeditions continues to push boundaries for green travel: As expedition cruising restarts, the world leader in exploration travel introduces the expedition cruise line’s third battery-hybrid powered ship - MS Otto Sverdrup.

Bissagos Islands in Guinea-Bissau, a new Hurtigruten Expeditions' destination for 2022

Hurtigruten Expeditions launches African cruises

The world leader in exploration travel will be the only expedition cruise line to explore the African West Coast next year and introduces four new countries to its jam-packed 2022/23 season
Hurtigruten Expeditions, the world’s leading expedition cruise line, is responding to guest demand for more warm water destinations by adding the West Coast of Africa and its unique archipelagos – the Bissag

EXPLORE MORE: From 2022, Hurtigruten Expeditions will offer year-round exploration of the Galapagos Islands on board a fully upgraded and intimate 90 guest MS Santa Cruz II. Photo: Hurtigruten Expeditions

Hurtigruten Expeditions continues expansion: Introduces exclusive Galapagos expedition cruises

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IN WAKE OF HEROES: As the polar hero it's named after, battery-hybrid powered MS Fridtjof Nansen will explore spectacular destinations such as Antarctica, Greenland and the Arctic. Photo: ANDREA KLAUSSNER/Hurtigruten Expeditions

Hurtigruten Expeditions marks 125 years of exploring by naming battery hybrid powered MS Fridtjof Nansen on Svalbard

In 1896, Hurtigruten Expeditions founded expedition cruising. 125 years later, what has grown to become the world’s leading and largest expedition cruise line is naming its battery-hybrid powered MS Fridtjof Nansen in the birthplace of expedition cruising – on the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard.

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Hurtigruten Group - World leader in exploration travel

Building on 125 years of Norwegian pioneering heritage, Hurtigruten is today the world's largest expedition cruise company.

Hurtigruten’s rapidly growing fleet of custom-build expedition ships takes modern-day adventure travellers to the world’s most spectacular destinations on our Planet - from the High North to Antarctica in the south.

Being the world leader in exploration travel comes with a great responsibility. Hurtigruten is enhancing destinations and runs an responsible, sustainable global operation. Read more about Hurtigruten's sustainability efforts here.

Hurtigruten introduced the world’s first hybrid battery powered cruise ships, the MS Roald Amundsen this summer. In 2020 she is followed by sister ship MS Fridtjof Nansen.

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