The Arctic region encompasses eight different countries — Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, and the United States — and consequently, many different languages. Depending on the trip you choose to take, the language spoken at the start and end points will differ. English, however, will be the lingua franca on board your ship.
Most of our Arctic cruises start in Norway where Norwegian is spoken, others start in Iceland where Icelandic is the official language. We also offer cruises starting in Nuuk in Greenland where Greenlandic is spoken by 70% of the population, although Danish is used in political and administrative circles, while in Canada, English is spoken across the Arctic alongside Inuit languages such as Inuktut, Inuktitut, Inuinnaqtun and Inuvialuktun.