We like this trip for its single-minded focus on Baffin Island, one of the planet’s last great untrodden wildernesses. Highlights include chanced encounters with bowheads and narwhal at Isabella Bay, two planned Inuit community visits and a history lesson as…

For an all round introduction to the Arctic, with a strong focus on wildlife, this trip is hard to beat. Searching for bears, whales and musk ox, experiencing Greenland's ‘big ice’ and learning about the early explorers as you traverse…