— A quiet way to travel
02 Ice-class 1A vessels
03 1:9 guide-to-guest ratio
04 No scripted itineraries
Shore landings are scheduled in pencil. Our ice pilot reads the pack each morning, and we go where the ice allows.
We were founded in 2004 by two former British Antarctic Survey scientists who wanted to build the kind of expedition they could not, themselves, buy a ticket on. Two ships. Small manifests. Every itinerary weather-dependent.
Our expedition leaders include a walrus biologist, a retired ice captain, two glaciologists and a BBC wildlife cinematographer. They lecture on board, lead every zodiac, and eat dinner at your table.
— 2026 · 2027 departures
Thirty-two voyages. Two poles.
Weddell Sea Crossing
Svalbard: The Kingdom of Ice
East Greenland & Scoresby Sound
Northwest Passage
South Georgia & the Falklands
— Two ships, one standard
Built for ice. Quiet under sail.
Both ships carry no more than 100 guests. Both run hybrid-electric. Both were designed with naturalists in the room.
— The Meridian Journal
Dispatches from the ships and the field.
Mar 14, 2026 · 8 min
Notes from the ice edge at 81°N
Ice pilot Inga Mikkelsen on reading pack ice, the art of the “pencil itinerary,” and why she carries three hand lenses.
◉ Meridian
Polar expeditions, led by scientists, on two small ice-class vessels. Founded 2004 in Tromsø, Norway.
Storgata 44 · 9008 Tromsø · Norway
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Meridian