We’re off in just a few days! Destination – The North Pole (aka The Arctic!).

The Upschool party of 4 (Gavin McCormack, Richard Mills, Tanya and Graeme Myburgh) fly from Australia to Singapore and then Singapore to Oslo – which is the capital of Norway.

From Oslo, we take a short flight to a place called Svalbard. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole. It’s one of the world’s northernmost inhabited areas and is known for its rugged, remote terrain of glaciers and frozen tundra sheltering polar bears, Svalbard reindeer and Arctic foxes.

The ship that we are travelling on – The Greg Mortimer – leaves from a town in Svalbard called Longyearbyen on June 30.

From there, the adventure starts!

A huge thank you to Aurora Expeditions for making this trip possible!

Stay tuned 🙂